On Wednesday, January 12th, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm PST, Opscode will perform a two-hour scheduled maintenance. During this maintenance period, we will be conducting several actions to upgrade capacity and optimize several key components of the Opscode platform. These improvements will increase the speed and reliability of the platform.

Configuration management, automation and monitoring are a compelling combination. This session will explore the new Zenoss Core cookbook for Chef. The presentation will walk through cookbook and discuss the inner workings, while providing a live demonstration of a Zenoss server being deployed and automatically monitoring Chef-managed nodes. Registration: Opscode Webex http://bit.

Last week we had a Chef Hack day in Atlanta and I started working on a project I have wanted to do all year. We started a hack to build a multi-tier LAMP stack from scratch. The kicker is that I wanted it to be completely automated.

Want to watch a whirlwind tour of getting started with Opscode Chef that demos automated ec2 instance deployment using the Opscode Platform? With the ingredients below, stream or download the WebEx to start cooking with Chef with your host and technical evangelist Aaron Peterson. Watch now! Ingredients: You’ll want one(1) chef-supported workstation to play along.

Following on the success of the recent San Francisco Chef Hack Day, Saturday December 11th will be the first Atlanta-area Chef Hack Day! Opscode will be in full attendance, multiple members from our evangelism team along with members from our core development team will be in town for the event.

Do you want to start developing Infrastructure as Code? Take your first step into a larger world with an action-packed technical walk-through! Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM PST, 18:00 GMT. Expect about 1 hour for the walk-through and 15 minutes for the Q&A.

The Opscode Services team will be in Seattle next week, and we will be hosting a Chef community meeting at Studio in the Hotel 1000. If you like Chef, Ruby or anything else operations related, please join us! I will be presenting how to write lightweight resources and providers in Chef cookbooks.

Today we have a small release of Chef to fix a few bugs that slipped through the testing process for 0.9.10. Fixed in 0.9.12: CHEF-1706: Using node in an attributes file causes an infinite loop when loading the file in shef. CHEF-1480: Chef passes the invalid option -r to usermod.

In case you missed the webcast this afternoon, or want to review it again, we have posted the WebEx recording Here is a list of the Knife resources that were referenced in today’s webcast: Knife Man Page – bonus pro tip install gem-man and access the man page on your local machine with a simple […]