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Just Released – Update to Knife Plugin for Google Compute Engine

The folks at Google have just published a major update to “knife-google” plugin for Google Compute Engine. Included in this update is a removal of the “gcutil” tookit as an external dependency, meaning that knife-google users can talk directly to

Cheezburger Builds Massive Social Humor Website Network w/Hosted Chef

Coming out of a seriously rockin’ #ChefConf a week ago, it’s time to profile more customer awesomeness in the Chef Community. This go round it’s a neighbor of ours here in Seattle – Cheezburger, one of the largest social humor

Opscode Momentum Surges As Chef Community Unites at #ChefConf 2013

Today from #ChefConf 2013, we made a series of exciting announcements, including collaborations with IBM (see separate blog for more info) and Microsoft, to some serious business and community growth metrics. Thanks to our awesome Chef Community, Opscode Chef is

Opscode and IBM Join Forces to Bring Open Source Cloud Automation to the Enterprise

This morning, we announced an exciting collaboration with our friends at IBM to bring the full power of Opscode Chef to IBM’s enterprise customers. From Opscode Chef integration with IBM SmartCloud, to new cookbooks, content and more, we’re working closely

Awesome Chefs – Sonian Takes Archive & Search to the Cloud w/Opscode

Good news this morning, as we announced that Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered email archiving and search, has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™. Sonian is using Hosted Chef to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud infrastructure as

Managing cloud infrastructure is easy when you have the cheat code

Another week, another tale of some Awesome Chefs in our Community doing big things with Chef. This time, the story comes from right here in Opscode’s backyard of Seattle. Meteor Entertainment, which publishes free-to-play games globally, with an emphasis on

AWS OpsWorks Uses Opscode Chef as Default Automation Engine

It has been an eventful February here at Opscode.  As many of you know, on February 4th, we announced that Facebook is using Private Chef to automate the configuration and management of its web-tier infrastructure. That is some hefty validation

Getaroom Makes Booking Hotels Cheap and Easy with Opscode

More customer awesomeness today, this time from our friends at Getaroom, who make finding the best rates on hotels anywhere in the world fast and easy. Getaroom has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration management for the Amazon EC2

Cycle Computing Puts Chef 11 Through its Paces w/10K+ AWS Servers

We’ve been posting a lot of cool news today and now it’s time for a bit more… Our friends at Cycle Computing helped test the scale of the new Chef 11 last week, creating a 10K+ server instance (10,598 servers,

Chef for OpenStack in Boston and NYC

What better way to start 2013 than getting involved with Chef for OpenStack in Boston and New York City? We’ve got 3 free events and they’re all filling fast: January 22:Chef for OpenStack Hack Day – Boston January 22:Chef-BOSTON Meetup:

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