October 2009 Archives

Chef 0.7.14, Ohai 0.3.6 Releases

Piping hot from the kitchen, I’m pleased to announce the release of both Chef 0.7.14 and Ohai 0.3.6. Thom May is awarded the MVP this release for fixing Chef to manage Yum correctly on CentOS4 with some well-appreciated Python skill. Go the snake charmer ;) The secret sauce of this release however is definitely the Deploy resource, and th... See the full post

The New Opscode Cookbook Site.

As Chef becomes more popular, its users need a central place to discover the cookbooks that already exist, and the community needs mechanisms to rate them and bubble the best ones up to the top. That’s why today Opscode is launching a new part of the Opscode.com website, dedicated to Chef cookbooks. It’s a central place for users of ... See the full post

Preview: Chef 0.8 and the Opscode Platform

Folks using Chef already know its the easiest and best way to get an automated server infrastructure up and running. We here at Opscode have been hard at work making it even easier. In his latest episode of the Opscode Screencast, CTO Adam Jacob gives a sneak peek of what’s coming in the Chef 0.8 release, along with the first details of a ... See the full post

Chef 0.7.12rc0, Ohai 0.3.4rc0 release(s)

It’s that time again! I’m pleased to announce the release candidates of Chef 0.7.12 and Ohai 0.3.4. I hope you’ll take the time to test both releases on a development snapshot of any production infrastructure, and report bugs towards the 0.7.12 and 0.3.4 projects on JIRA. I’ve tentatively scheduled the release of 0.7.12 ... See the full post