Unable to make the 3-Day Chef Fundamentals Training in Austin, but still thirst for training on the use of Chef? Let the Chef Wiki Guides quench your thirst!

Our good friends at Voxel have published a new knife plugin for provisioning and managing Voxel cloud instances. The gem is available on RubyGems and you can install it with gem install knife-voxel If you feel like digging into the code and seeing how it works, it’s all available on their GitHub page as well.

Mondays Ohai release had some regressions that we wanted to resolve right away, so we have another release for you today. Bryan W. Berry quickly found and resolved an issue where the new LSB support on Redhat based systems was returning platform as ‘redhatenterpriseserver’. Thanks for that speedy work Bryan, you are this releases MVP!

We’ve got a new release of Ohai, the tool that Chef uses to collect node data. Rubygems and Debian packages are available now. This release resolves an exception with StringIO that users of newer versions of systemu may be seeing.

New Chef Cookbooks Developed in Conjunction with Dell and Rackspace Enable Rapid Deployment and Automation of Computing, Object Storage, Imaging Services, Monitoring and Authentication of OpenStack Clouds Seattle – Oct 3, 2011 – Opscode, Inc.

Opscode is proud to be a sponsor of Seattle Beta Launch Event.  Seattle Beta provides a social forum for young(er) start ups to mingle and present their wares.  Twenty dollars gets you in the door for an evening of live demos and conversation.

Opscode is pleased to announce we will be sponsoring the Enterprise Cloud Summit & exhibiting during the InterOp Expo at the Javits Center in New York City.  Our Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O’Meara, will take the stage during the Summit (October 3rd @ 4:10) to provide attendees with a quick introduction to Chef.

In May we formed an internal group for open source ticket triage. It was populated with Opscode employees who had different backgrounds and roles but one thing in common: they volunteered to participate because they loved open source. In about 20 meetings, we have triaged over 325 tickets!

Just a friendly reminder that there’s only one week to go before we stop accepting cookbooks for Opscode’s first cookbook contest. Get your submissions in before the end of the month! Read more about the cookbook contest in the original blog post.