It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year. Corey Scobie, our new SVP of Product and Engineering, announced the general availability of Chef Automate 2, […]
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InSpec enables you to automate compliance by expressing the expected state of many things. A common need is to find a group of things, then examine them in detail. If you are using the cloud, you know that cloud security is paramount, but difficult to keep enforced. Even if you have your infrastructure creation automated, […]
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The thought of deploying Icinga with Chef is an exciting prospect. You get all the benefits of the flexible monitoring Icinga provides with all the reliability and scalability of Chef’s configuration management. So, when I heard that Icinga had ditched their old monolithic cookbook design, I knew I needed to have a look. What’s new? […]
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At ChefConf 2018 in Chicago last month Arun Gupta, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, showcased how you can check for compliance of worker nodes in a Kubernetes cluster using OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). As part of the conference, AWS open sourced the code used; Give it a try! you can download the code here. […]
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Last week at ChefConf 2018, we announced the general availability (GA) of Chef Automate 2. Chef Automate 2 is a continuous automation platform that provides operational visibility into your managed fleet, with visual tools such as a query language, trend graph and event timeline to help you narrow down and correct errors. Chef Automate has […]
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Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world. Chef […]
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Today at ChefConf18 we recognized some of our most innovative Chef customers and partners at our Customer of the Year awards. These awards, in their first year, recognize companies doing awesome things with Chef to drive their businesses forward with automation. Josh Crossman, with help from Adam Jacob and Barry Crist, presented the awards in […]
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We’re so excited to announce the Awesome Community Chefs for 2018. It’s inspiring for us to hear from our community through the nominations and then be able to recognize the huge contributions from our Awesome Community Chefs. These folks are out there Doing Change everyday to help others reach their goals in so many ways. […]
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InSpec-Iggy, or “Iggy” for short, is a new plugin for InSpec that generates InSpec compliance profiles from Terraform .tfstate files (and eventually AWS CloudFormation and Azure Resource Manager templates). Iggy was originally inspired by Christoph Hartmann’s inspec-verify-provision repository and the associated blog post on testing Terraform with InSpec. With the release of InSpec 2.0 and the addition […]
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This week brings us into another delightful ChefConf! We’ve made a lot of great announcements about enhancements and features that have been added across our suite of automation tools, and in Chef Automate itself with Automate 2.0. We also announced that Chef Software is now even more tightly integrated with the Microsoft Azure platform. Users […]
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