We have published new Amazon EC2 AMIs for Ubuntu 9.10 with Chef 0.8.10. The identifiers are: ami-69987600 (32bit) ami-6b987602 (64bit) We have created a wiki page with instructions on how to utilize these AMIs. That page will be updated with new identifiers corresponding to new Chef releases.

Chef Fundamentals (3 Days) Chef Fundamentals is a three-day comprehensive class covering the basic architecture of Chef and all of the underlying components. We will be covering installation basics of Chef Client and Chef Solo. Other topics will include: creating Chef repositories, creating cookbooks and advanced using of the new command line utility called Knife.

Chef 0.8.10 is upon us. The big news for this release is we updated the version dependencies, so that Merb 1.0.15 is installed. As we upgrade the Chef Server to support Merb 1.1.0, we’ll be updating this version dependency as well (there is a great reason – Ruby 1.9 support!

Joshua Timberman, Sr Solutions Engineer, will be presenting Chef at the Linux Open Administration Days in Antwerp Belgium on Saturday April 10th. This is the first time Opscode will be doing a product presentation in Europe. Wish Josh luck on #chef on IRC or @jtimberman .

3 Questions with Jesse Robbins at Cloud Connect 2010 from dev2ops.org on Vimeo. We play a round of “3 Questions” with Damon Edwards at Cloud Connect in San Jose on March 17, 2010. What brought you to Cloud Connect? What aspect of Clouds currently excites you?

Rachel Chalmers , Research Director at the 451 Group , recently profiled Opscode , saying: “In mid-January, Chef celebrated its first birthday. Opscode, the commercial backer of the project, was understandably pleased with its accomplishments.

Join us for a Webex Session – Configuring Nagios on AWS with Chef Date: Friday, March 26, 2010 Time: 11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Instructor: Adam Jacob, Opscode CTO Come spend a little time with Adam Jacob, CTO and Founder of Opscode, while he demonstrates how to instrument a cloud-based infrastructure with […]

We have published Amazon EC2 images based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 base image, with Chef 0.8.8 installed via RubyGems. AMIs are only available in the us-east zone at this time. These images have Chef 0.8.8 pre-installed, with the chef-client service set up to start on boot via runit.

Today is Ada Lovelace day , which is an opportunity to recognize some of the many women in computing we admire. One of those women is Software Engineer, AP Computer Science Teacher, and Geek Generator Dr. Lauren Bricker .