Opscode loves Erlang and we’re not afraid to show it! Myself and several Opscode engineers will be attending Erlang Factory to talk about Erlang, distributed systems, web programming, and just hang out with the generally awesome Erlang community.

We are excited to announce the availability of the new Opscode Knife plugin for HP Cloud Services. This plugin gives knife the ability to create, bootstrap and manage instances in HP Cloud Services Compute, currently in beta.

In July, 2010, we announced Opscode Open Training, providing free availability to open source Chef training materials under a Creative Commons Share-alike license. To date, more than a thousand people have signed up for the materials. We have conducted several classes, both public and private.

Slides Video & the “Automate All the Things!” from Jesse Robbins’ Cloud Connect Keynote.

Our friends at Citrix & the CloudStack.org open source community have just released CloudStack 3.  This a significant update to the CloudStack platform, which adds support for NetScaler loadbalancers & integration with the OpenStack Swift storage system.

Chef is cool. Chef is community. PR is not necessarily either of those things. We get that. But enabling customers to do great things – easier, faster and better – is cool. That is what Opscode’s all about: Customer success and enabling the community.

One of Latin America’s Largest Airlines Selects Hosted Chef™ for Rapid Data Center Configuration and Automation SEATTLE, Wash – February 7, 2012 – Opscode, Inc.

Event Brings IT Professionals Together to Develop Chef®-Based Infrastructure Automation Skills as Cloud Computing Rises to Top Priority in the Enterprise SEATTLE, Wash – Jan 24, 2012 — Opscode® today announced the inaugural #ChefConf 2012 User Conference, taking place May 15-17 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, Calif.

In September of last year, the team faced one of its first challenges in responding to the growing user base of Hosted Chef. The on-call engineer at the time received an alert that the queue used to store Chef objects waiting to be indexed for search was backed up.