The good folk at White Pages are hosting a Seattle are Chef Meetup this Wednesday and we’d love to see you there. This will be an informal gathering of Seattle area Chef enthusiasts, with plenty of attendance from the Opscode Team. Pizza and beer will be provided by Opscode.

This weekend, both the Seattle Seahawks and the Opscode Development team are coming to Chicago to teach you a thing or two! Following on the success of the recent Atlanta and San Francisco Hack Days, Saturday January 15th will be the first Chicago-area Chef Hack Day.

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.