Monthly Archives: August 2009

Chef Available in Ubuntu Karmic Koala!

We are very excited to announce that Chef packages and related dependencies have been accepted into Ubuntu's Karmic Koala release! This is a great milestone in the effort to get Debian/Ubuntu packages of Chef available. First of all, thanks go

Chef 0.7.8 Release

Jeppe Nejsum Madsen scoops up the MVP this release for fixing an annoying bug related to fetching remote files, usually encountered in combination with Amazon's Simple Storage Service (CHEF-296) – and also for alerting us to his patch being missing

Why we chose the Apache License

From time to time, we get asked why new contributors to any Opscode project have to sign a Contributor License Agreement (or a Corporate Contributor License Agreement.) While there is an explanation on the Opscode Wiki, we’ve never gone into

Coming Soon, Chef 0.7.8

Over the weekend, we found out from our excellent community that the attributes improvements weren't totally backwards compatible as we thought. For now the 0.7.6 gems have been pulled from [deprecated location]* and we will be releasing Chef 0.7.8 later

Cool Chef Tricks: Upgrade Chef With Chef!

Since we had a new release of Chef, I needed to upgrade all my internal testing nodes to the new version. This was quick and painless, because I used Chef to upgrade itself. One reason why it was so easy

Chef 0.7.6 Release

A lot of things happened in the last month since the 0.7.4 release!The MVP for this release is a new contributor, Grant Zanetti. Unfortunately we weren't able to secure a picture of Grant in time for the release post, but

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