3 Questions with Jesse Robbins at Cloud Connect 2010 from dev2ops.org on Vimeo. We play a round of “3 Questions” with Damon Edwards at Cloud Connect in San Jose on March 17, 2010. What brought you to Cloud Connect? What aspect of Clouds currently excites you?

Rachel Chalmers , Research Director at the 451 Group , recently profiled Opscode , saying: “In mid-January, Chef celebrated its first birthday. Opscode, the commercial backer of the project, was understandably pleased with its accomplishments.

Join us for a Webex Session – Configuring Nagios on AWS with Chef Date: Friday, March 26, 2010 Time: 11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) Instructor: Adam Jacob, Opscode CTO Come spend a little time with Adam Jacob, CTO and Founder of Opscode, while he demonstrates how to instrument a cloud-based infrastructure with […]

We have published Amazon EC2 images based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 base image, with Chef 0.8.8 installed via RubyGems. AMIs are only available in the us-east zone at this time. These images have Chef 0.8.8 pre-installed, with the chef-client service set up to start on boot via runit.

Today is Ada Lovelace day , which is an opportunity to recognize some of the many women in computing we admire. One of those women is Software Engineer, AP Computer Science Teacher, and Geek Generator Dr. Lauren Bricker .

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It’s Chef 0.8.8 time, and the big news this release is that we fixed an issue where the remote directory resource was broken for users of Chef Solo. Sorry, guys – we’ve added tests to ensure this won’t happen again in the future.

Cloud Operations Bootcamp: Culture View more presentations from Jesse Robbins.

Robert Scoble interviews Seth Chisamore of MaxMedia (@schisamo) and our very own John Willis on the Building43 blog! In this interview, Seth explains how MaxMedia uses Chef and the Rackspace Cloud to turn their hosting business into a profit center while providing great services for their customers. Check out the full post!