Opscode and Boundary are combining forces to host the May Seattle Erlounge. The meeting will be hosted at Opscode HQ located on Western Avenue on 5/3/2012. Festivities will begin at 7:00 PM. Post-meeting drinks, courtesy of Boundary, will follow at a nearby establishment.

A few weeks ago, we migrated the opscode/cookbooks repository to separate repositories per-cookbook in a new organization on GitHub. We have already received more than 50 pull requests! Thank you for your contributions and participation. You are all awesome. While we haven’t gotten through all the old repository’s pull requests; we’re still making progress there.

Several of you asked if we would could extend #ChefConf early bird pricing by a few days… so we did.  ;-) You now have until Wednesday April 4th at 11:59 PM Pacific to get your tickets at the lower price.

If you know about Opscode, you know Community really means something to us, and there’s no better way to keep our Community growing strong than by getting out there and meeting with folks face to face.

Ignition Partners Leads Funding Round with Follow-on Investments From Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Ignition Partner and Former Microsoft CFO, John Connors, Joins Opscode Board of Directors During Period of Rapid Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure Automation SEATTLE – March 26, 2012 – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that it […]

We’ve made several big announcements this morning… slightly ahead of schedule. You can read details on TechCrunch, GeekWire, DataCenterKnowledge, GigaOM, and more on Techmeme. We just raised $19,500,000! We’ve just closed $19.5M in Series C Funding, led by John Connors at Ignition Partners, along with Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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The next release of Ohai is upon us and includes the new platform_family attribute as well as Oracle Linux support. Cookbook authors are often writing cookbooks that support both Debian based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, and Redhat based Linux distributions, such as CentOS.

Most everybody likes to win and, here at Opscode, we’re no different. That’s why we’re excited about some recent accolades we received – so much so we wanted to share the good news. First, the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 recognized Opscode as a private company changing the game in IT.