The cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; however, it has not decreased the complexity of managing applications and data center operations. OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of a new movement […]

The week of February 8th Opscode will be having some fun in Atlanta. Josh Timberman @jtimberman, one of the Opscode senior engineers, will be in Atalanta to do some work with Chef community in Atlanta. Here are some of the highlights for that week. Chef “Bootcamp Workshop” Sprint Ignition Alley, Monday February 8th – 10th […]

CloudCamp Haiti is a virtual unconference held as a public webinar. CloudCamp Haiti builds upon the popular CloudCamp format by providing a free and open place for the introduction and advancement of cloud computing. For this event, we are raising funds to donate to the aid effort in Haiti. Funds will be donated directly to […]

One year ago today, Chef saw its first public release . Since then, we’ve seen our community grow from a handful of people to one of the most vibrant open source communities around: 100 people have signed the Opscode Contributor License Agreements 52 different people (5 of whom work for Opscode) have committed to the […]

The Amazon AWS team just posted a great interview with Olivier Gutknecht of Fotopedia about the infrastructure they use to process the huge amount of information that makes up their (beautiful!) site. Fotopedia is the first collaborative photo encyclopedia. Olivier has been a Chef for quite some time, and is the also creator of the […]

It’s time for the first annual Opscode Holiday Open House! We are opening up our Seattle headquarters to gather with friends, share some food and drink and, if you’re lucky, play a game or two of DJ Hero. We would love to have you join, so please RSVP if you plan to attend Details: Wednesday […]

There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve. One way is by helping you to get Crunchie nominations. You can only vote once per category per day, so here is today’s list: Nominate […]

We’ve got 3 new developer positions posted. Check out our updated Careers page to see the available positions.

There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve… and the Crunchies are coming up fast!. We’re building a list of Chef-powered Startups with links to the Crunchie nomination form. We’ll then post them […]