May 10, 2010 — Christopher Brown joins Opscode from Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.coms Elastic Compute Cloud (“EC2”).

This week we are pleased to announce a very special release: Elizabeth Gregory Jacob. The Release MVP is Katie Bethell who worked literally non-stop for the past 9 months, with assistance from Adam Jacob . Both will be critical to the ongoing development of what looks like a very promising project. Congratulations, and Awesome work!

It’s Chef release time again! This time, we’re skipping 0.8.12 and heading right to 0.8.14 due to a hiccup in our publishing process. Chef 0.8.14 has a huge amount of bug fixes and improvements, thanks to the tireless work of our awesome community. Most importantly, Chef 0.8.

We are pleased to announce the release of two new cookbooks to aid in deploying applications that are designed to be completely data driven. The new cookbooks are: application database They are designed to work with a Chef Server such as the Opscode Platform, and be driven by Data Bags and Search Indexes.

Our new address is 1008 Western Ave, Suite #600, Seattle, WA 98104 View Opscode HQ in a larger map

Peek makes a simple mobile device that sends & receives unlimited email (& SMS, twitter, facebook, and more) from anywhere in the US for a low monthly fee. It’s kind of like an email-only Blackberry, and is super cool. The Peek is becoming quite popular & they are continuing to grow in EC2.

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We have published new Amazon EC2 AMIs for Ubuntu 9.10 with Chef 0.8.10. The identifiers are: ami-69987600 (32bit) ami-6b987602 (64bit) We have created a wiki page with instructions on how to utilize these AMIs. That page will be updated with new identifiers corresponding to new Chef releases.