Today we are announcing the end-of-life date for support of the DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) High Availability feature of Chef Server to be March 31, 2019. The DRBD HA topology has been deprecated for over two years, since the release of Chef HA (also known as Chef Backend) and Chef Server 12.9. DRBD HA […]
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This week we’re pleased to release a new video series, Intro to AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate. In this playlist, we provide a concise overview of OpsWorks for Chef Automate, a fully-managed offering of the Chef Automate platform on Amazon Web Services, along with practical usage examples so you can follow along in your own […]
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Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in September across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.5.33, which includes two new resources: windows_workgroup, which allows you to modify the system’s Windows workgroup, and locale, which sets the system locale. Thank you to community members […]
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At ChefConf 2018 in May, we announced the availability of InSpec in Azure Cloud Shell, allowing users to run InSpec scans anywhere they can connect from their Azure subscription. All without ever needing to install software on their local machine. At that time we also announced a new tool called Chef Workstation, which includes the […]
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InSpec by Chef is a powerful “compliance as code” tool powered by an ever growing number of compliance profiles and target resources. It enables users to achieve continuous compliance across their IT environments. Over the last six months Chef has created dedicated teams to create and test profiles for a variety of OSs and Cloud […]
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We have some exciting news! Chef is introducing a series of short videos for Habitat on YouTube: Getting Started with Habitat. This playlist focuses on Habitat – including getting started, core concepts, and practical tips. If you’re interested in application automation or you’re looking to modernize your legacy apps, these five new videos will help you […]
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We are very pleased to announce the results from Chef’s 2018 State of Applications Survey. Earlier this year, we partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 347 applications and IT operations professionals worldwide on the topic of application build and release processes. We also asked them to describe their current and future production infrastructure deployments to […]
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Today is 10 years from the day that Chef became a company (at the time, as OpsCode). What started as a consulting company with many of my best friends (Nathan Haneysmith, Barry Steinglass, and Joshua Timberman, our first employee), eventually became the Chef we all know and love. Jesse Robbins saw what we were doing, and […]
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Today we are excited to support the launch of Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server). Chef Extension for Azure DevOps The Chef extension for Azure DevOps enables users within organizations to integrate Chef into the build and release phases of their DevOps toolset; specifically, the Azure Pipelines component of the […]
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Businesses today are in the process of augmenting or even shutting down their data centers, and moving into the public cloud. As customers move their services into Azure or other cloud providers, they quickly confronted by a breadth of questions some of which are listed below. How do we most effectively move our services into […]
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