New Versioning You may notice the slight but meaningful change in the version. We had always intended to follow the spirit of the Semantic Versioning Specification, but determining what version “1.0” would be kept being put off for the future.

Virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to scale physical environments. But it doesn’t do much for management. That’s where Chef comes in. Chef provides the same great benefits for automating virtualized servers that if offers for cloud-based or physical resources.

I’m excited to announce “Chef for Developers” is going on the road! The class debuted at ChefConf and sold out the first day. Since then we’ve tuned up the content and polished the hands-on labs to a bright shine to make learning Chef even easier. “Chef for Developers” is a developer-friendly introduction to Chef.

Company Experiencing Period of Rapid Growth as Enterprise Begins to Re-Tool for New Generation of IT Infrastructure Management and Automation SEATTLE – May 16, 2012 – From #ChefConf 2012, Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Gartner, Inc., has named Opscode as a “Cool Vendor” in DevOps.

Company Announces Integration with Several Cloud Computing Providers Including Amazon EC2, HP Cloud Services, Rackspace Cloud, OpenStack, VMware vCloud, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, Joyent Cloud, Terremark, Voxel and BrightBox

SEATTLE – May 16, 2012 – From #ChefConf 2012, Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Opscode Chef™ provides integration with a wide range of […]

#ChefConf 2012 is just a few days away, and we are going to have a very full event! Several people have asked about the schedule for Tuesday & Friday workshops and/or if we can squeeze any more people in. We are sending this overview to help eliminate any confusion. Feel free to email chefconf@opscode.

We have another epic Chef release ready for you with over 120 closed tickets. The default bootstrap template for knife has changed in this release. If you haven’t been specifying a template with the “-d” flag, you’ve been using the “ubuntu10.04-gems” template.

As of June 11, 2012, we are officially ending support for the 0.9 series of Chef and we are encouraging all Chef 0.9 users to upgrade to Chef 0.10. Chef 0.10.0 was released on May 2, 2011. At the time, we planned to support Chef 0.9 for an additional three to six months.

Integration of Opscode Chef™ with New HP Public Cloud Service Enables Businesses of All Sizes to Fully Automate and Easily Manage their HP Public Cloud Infrastructure SEATTLE – May 10, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its Open Source Chef™, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ solutions provide full integration with […]