We’re pleased to release a new, easy way to install the Chef client: using our Omnibus packaging. Omnibus is all about helping you spend spending less time installing Chef and more time building awesome, automated infrastructure.

Brass Tacks: With our announcement today of integration with Google Compute Engine, yesterday’s news on “Chef for OpenStack”, and previous integration news with Azure and HP Cloud, Opscode Chef is now playing a central role in the best practices for building, deploying and managing public and private clouds across the entire waterfront of cloud providers.

SEATTLE, WA – June 28, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Opscode Open Source Chef™, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ solutions provide full integration with Google Compute Engine, delivering full stack infrastructure automation – from server provisioning and configuration management to continuous delivery of infrastructure and applications.

UPDATE: You can learn more about our work w/Intel in a blog post from Billy Cox. Opscode is pleased to announce the launch of our Chef for OpenStack project, a reference deployment for building and managing OpenStack clouds.

New Versioning We’ve reordered out versioning so instead of Chef 0.10.12 this is Chef 10.12.0. This is for the same reasons as our recent Ohai release.

Opscode is on the road this summer! If you plan on attending any of the following events, stop by the Opscode booth and get answers to your automation questions.

Ready to learn more about Chef? Attend one of our one day introductory workshops listed below.  In our Introductory Workshop you will learn to : Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server. Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example.

We’ve added a special Chef Full Day Workshop on Thursday, June 28 at the Hyatt Santa Clara. This is the day after VelocityConf ends and co-incides with the first day of DevOpsDays. This Chef 101 Workshop is a hands on training class for getting familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks.

Here at Opscode we have customers using Chef to implement some amazing use cases.  One of these is continuous delivery, which has emerged as an important strategy for enabling development teams to continuously build, test, and deploy software at the speed businesses need while reducing risk through incremental change.