Organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud at breakneck speed, and it’s not difficult to see why. Cloud providers offer the ability to provision new environments and infrastructure on demand, allowing fleets to be scaled with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Costly and complex to maintain network and storage hardware can be replaced with vendor-managed services. […]
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Chef offers many learning opportunities in Europe via training partners. One of these is Commandemy, an Austrian IT training provider specializing in topics like DevOps, Automation, and Configuration Management. They have a long relationship with Chef and have delivered our courses all over Europe, especially in the DACH region. We had a chance to meet […]
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Chef and Microsoft have released an e-guide on infrastructure as code (IaC) on Azure. IaC gives you the basic structure that allows systems to replicate automatically across any number of virtual machines, cloud instances, or containers – in a matter of minutes. IaC Success Stories IaC helps to easily adapt your entire infrastructure, across the […]
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a huge ecosystem of products that can make your infrastructure one of the best supported on the planet. Back in October, we announced a new integration between GCP and Chef to support the ever increasing number of Chef customers using GCP. The Chef Certified GCP cookbooks enable Chef practitioners to […]
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Today is Equal Pay Day in the U.S. and we at Chef would like to add our voice in highlighting that, on average, women earn $.78 for every $1.00 a man earns. We appreciate being part of the growing conversation around compensation equity. Our clear goal at Chef is to be at the forefront […]
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In The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations the authors describe “The Three Ways” – the underlying principles forming the basis for all DevOps practices. The Third Way is about creating a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, with an emphasis on practice and repetition as the path […]
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Last week we presented a webinar Best Practices for Migrating Your Chef Server, which was a follow-up to the popular blog post from 2017, Migrating your Chef Server with knife-ec-backup and knife-tidy. During this talk, our participants brought so many excellent questions that we couldn’t answer them all. In this post, we’ll attempt to […]
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The word continuous describes a process that never ends, marked by uninterrupted extension in space, time or sequence. In the world of DevOps many things are continuous: Continuous Integration, Continuous Server Deployment, Continuous Application Deployment, Continuous Everything. Inspired by this definition, the term Continuous Monitoring is an ongoing process where the monitoring software is changed […]
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“What to expect when you’re InSpec-ing” is a series of concise learning segments focused on InSpec topics using InSpec resources and controls in quick examples that demonstrate the feature set of the InSpec compliance and testing suite. To develop the “Auditing with InSpec” certification, the Chef Training team immersed ourselves in how InSpec worked. The […]
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Earlier this week, we published a recap of our recent InSpec 2.0 webinar, and covered some of the themes that came up during the Q&A session. A number of attendees asked some variation of the question, “Can InSpec be used with other configuration management tools?” In short, the answer is: absolutely! Today we’d like to […]
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