#ChefConf 2012 is just a few days away, and we are going to have a very full event! Several people have asked about the schedule for Tuesday & Friday workshops and/or if we can squeeze any more people in. We are sending this overview to help eliminate any confusion. Feel free to email chefconf@opscode.com with [...]
We have another epic Chef release ready for you with over 120 closed tickets. The default bootstrap template for knife has changed in this release. If you haven’t been specifying a template with the “-d” flag, you’ve been using the “ubuntu10.04-gems” template. As of this release you will need to specify this template with “-d [...]
As of June 11, 2012, we are officially ending support for the 0.9 series of Chef and we are encouraging all Chef 0.9 users to upgrade to Chef 0.10. Chef 0.10.0 was released on May 2, 2011. At the time, we planned to support Chef 0.9 for an additional three to six months. I’m very [...]
Ignite #ChefConf is Wednesday, May 16th and YOU can speak! Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. It is super fun! Ready to submit your talk? [...]
Opscode is excited to announce that we’ll be attending and sponsoring the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference this week in San Francisco, CA. OpenStack developers, operators and users will gather to discuss the future of this open source cloud platform. We will be participating in a number of events and will have a booth as [...]
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. This is an excellent opportunity to meet Erlang and functional programming enthusiasts, [...]
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. Online event registration for #ChefConf 2012 powered by Eventbrite
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. This Spring we’ll be doing exactly that at a series of great shows and expos, where Opscode’s experts will [...]
We’ve made several big announcements this morning… slightly ahead of schedule. You can read the full details on our Press Release site. There is also press coverage 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 [...]
