New Versioning We’ve reordered out versioning so instead of Chef 0.10.12 this is Chef 10.12.0. This is for the same reasons as our recent Ohai release.

Opscode is on the road this summer! If you plan on attending any of the following events, stop by the Opscode booth and get answers to your automation questions.

Ready to learn more about Chef? Attend one of our one day introductory workshops listed below.  In our Introductory Workshop you will learn to : Set up a local workstation with Chef and connect to a Chef Server. Use Chef to automate installation of a Nagios server as a real world example.

We’ve added a special Chef Full Day Workshop on Thursday, June 28 at the Hyatt Santa Clara. This is the day after VelocityConf ends and co-incides with the first day of DevOpsDays. This Chef 101 Workshop is a hands on training class for getting familiar with Chef for performing common automation tasks.

Here at Opscode we have customers using Chef to implement some amazing use cases.  One of these is continuous delivery, which has emerged as an important strategy for enabling development teams to continuously build, test, and deploy software at the speed businesses need while reducing risk through incremental change.

Opscode Chef™ with Microsoft’s Open, Flexible Cloud Platform Helps Organizations Automate Windows Azure Infrastructure, Accelerating Time-to-Value and Increasing Business Agility SEATTLE – June 6, 2012 – Opscode®, a leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced its Open Source Chef™, Hosted Chef™ and Private Chef™ solutions provide full interoperability with Microsoft Corp’s Windows Azure to deliver […]

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.