One of the greatest thrills of working in Open Source is receiving your first pull request. Learning that someone not only took an interest in your project, but took enough interest to fork the code, make a change, and then submit it as a pull request is such an incredible feeling. Receiving pull requests is […]
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ChefConf 2019 is our time to get together with our community, learn from each other, and celebrate all the amazing things we’ve accomplished together over the year. One of the ways we love to recognize the contributions and hard work of our community is through the Awesome Community Chef Awards. Awesome Community Chefs are folks […]
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Chef is excited to announce that we have achieved official Center for Internet Security certification on the Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmarks (level 1 & level 2). With this certification, Chef Software is the first CIS partner to be certified on all three cloud providers for which they publish security benchmarks: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft […]
Read More Federal agencies work hard to provide value to consumers of their services, but in order to deliver updates at the velocity their customers demand, they must ensure their infrastructure is hardened and secure throughout the software development lifecycle. Chef Software, for over a decade, has helped Federal agencies automate how they build and manage this […]
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I am excited to announce that Policyfiles are now covered in Learn Chef Rally. Policyfiles have become mainstream and are a best practice for managing your estate with Chef. Policyfiles have a number of clear benefits: They ensure the cookbooks running in production are the same versions that were tested against; providing safer development workflows […]
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ChefConf 2019 is getting closer! Come hang with us in our hometown! ChefConf 2019 will be our 8th annual event, and we’ll be at Chef’s home in Seattle, WA. Join us this May for talks, workshops, and community! The Chef community hails from all over the world and includes dozens of industries – from healthcare, […]
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No one questions that audits are stressful, painful and time-consuming. But organizations — financial institutions especially — must conduct audits to ensure security and validate compliance regulatory requirements. As security threats increase or regulations change, entities in turn must conduct more audits. But how can a company stay competitive when so much time and resources […]
Read More One of the many reasons to attend ChefConf 2019 is the lineup of learning opportunities that will be available to improve your knowledge of Infrastructure, Compliance and Application Automation. In addition to the dozens of breakout sessions, we’re offering 11 full-day workshops at a crazy, low price with topics for all experience levels. You’ll also […]
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An article was shared yesterday detailing a runC vulnerability that affects Docker and Kubernetes where a malicious container can overwrite a host system’s runC binary, thus allowing root-level code execution on the host. This is an operations nightmare and it made me think of how Chef Habitat can help in these situations. I’d like to give […]
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The days where we wondered whether or not our organization would choose to migrate workloads to the cloud are long behind us. Today the question is not if we’ll move these workloads, but how many, and how quickly we can do so. As more and more of us undergo cloud migration initiatives, we find we […]
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