You may have noticed from recent posts to the mailing list, or by watching the ticket system that we have been pretty busy updating our cookbooks with community contributions and other fixes.

Adam Jacob Named Chief Customer Officer; George Moberly Named Vice President of Product Management SEATTLE, Wash – November 21st, 2011 – Opscode, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that company co-founder Adam Jacob has been named chief customer officer and George Moberly has joined the company as vice president of product management.

We (re)created the Opscode Facebook Page.

As a Rackspace Certified Deployment Partner, Opscode’s Chef Serves to Deploy and Operate Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure SEATTLE, Wash – November 7, 2011 — Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, has today announced that it will be a Certified Deployment Partner for Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition.

Here is a short “Chef 101” video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Opscode’s first Chef Cookbook Contest! We got some great submissions, all of which are now available on the Opscode Community Site. We liked the submissions so much we decided to give everyone who participated an Opscode T-shirt.

Release of New Chef Software Enables Automation of Windows Infrastructure, Including PowerShell, IIS, SQL Server and Windows Services SEATTLE – Oct. 24, 2011 – Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its Chef™ software and commercially supported Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ will now provide infrastructure automation in Windows environments.

We’ve got more Ohai fixes coming out the door today. A while back Gordon Thiesfeld came up with a solution for fixing codepages in Ohai on Windows and Doug MacEachern came up with the patch. Laurent Désarmes provided additional checks to the code that sets ipaddress.

Unable to make the 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in Austin, but still thirst for training on the use of Chef? Let the Chef Wiki Guides quench your thirst!