It has been only three months since 0.10.4 and we have another huge release for you. Once again, the Chef community has delivered. Andrea Campi of European consulting shop Zephirworks has been hard at work.

InfoQ just posted a great video & presentation of Michael T. Nygard talking about using Chef in the datacenter and in the cloud for managing physical and virtual systems at GOTO Aarhus.

Bryan Barry over at the devopsanywhere blog has written a great post about Chef containing his thoughts on why you might want to start using Chef to manage your infrastructure.

You may have noticed from recent posts to the mailing list, or by watching the ticket system that we have been pretty busy updating our cookbooks with community contributions and other fixes.

Adam Jacob Named Chief Customer Officer; George Moberly Named Vice President of Product Management SEATTLE, Wash – November 21st, 2011 – Opscode, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that company co-founder Adam Jacob has been named chief customer officer and George Moberly has joined the company as vice president of product management.

We (re)created the Opscode Facebook Page.

As a Rackspace Certified Deployment Partner, Opscode’s Chef Serves to Deploy and Operate Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure SEATTLE, Wash – November 7, 2011 — Opscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, has today announced that it will be a Certified Deployment Partner for Rackspace® Cloud: Private Edition.

Here is a short “Chef 101” video introduction for Opscode Chef & Cloud Infrastructure Automation, covering what Chef is, how Chef works in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid environments.

Thanks to everyone who participated in Opscode’s first Chef Cookbook Contest! We got some great submissions, all of which are now available on the Opscode Community Site. We liked the submissions so much we decided to give everyone who participated an Opscode T-shirt.