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 [...]
Like most open source projects, Chef began with an itch. From a small group of friends and colleagues, a band of system administrators who wanted a better way to build infrastructure, we have grown into a large and supportive community. In 2011 alone we’ve seen our contributor list double for both individuals and corporations from [...]
Kevin Smith, Director of Engineering at Opscode, will be coming down from Raleigh to speak at the Atlanta Erlang Users Group (ATLEUG) this coming Wednesday. If you live in the Atlanta-area be sure to join us as Kevin gives a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse and discusses how Opscode is improving performance and stability by migrating key [...]
Some history… In June of 2008, Adam Jacob, Barry Steinglass, Nathan Haneysmith, and I set out to (as Nathan put it) “Bring Infrastructure Automation to the Masses”. We were building what we believed could become the central configuration utility for the world’s infrastructure. Adam created Chef while we were still a consultancy called HJK Solutions, [...]
After a lengthy testing process, we're very proud to announce that Chef 0.10.0 is officially released. Chef 0.10 is a huge step forward, improving many aspects of the Chef experience. We've already previewed many of the new features in this release: Environments Knife Plugins and User Interface Encrypted Data Bag Items chefignore In addition to [...]
