We recognize that our annual ChefConf event has a significant financial impact on the host community including the hotel, shops, restaurants, tourist destinations and small businesses that our guests enjoy during their visit. In 2020, that location was meant to be Seattle, and while the circumstances leading to the shift to digital were beyond our […]
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We’re down to the final week of the month of ChefConf live recording sessions! It’s a challenge to figure out exactly what to call the track that isn’t explicitly focused on a Chef product, but the gist is that we want to bring you some sessions on stuff that is freaking cool. Building software tools […]
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I’m very privileged to work with a range of FSI organizations across Asia Pacific (APAC) as a Regional Solutions Architect at Chef. Customers in every vertical need help and assistance with continuously auditing their environments inline with industry standards, as well as those set by governments, and independent regulators. The Telecommunications industry is held accountable […]
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With DevOps and Agile adoption on the rise and automation levels reaching all-time highs, many organizations still struggle to scale continuous delivery across their enterprise applications and continue to face an all too familiar scenario. The development team releases an application to operations where it then fails in pre-prod due to a missing piece of […]
Read More We are halfway through the Month of ChefConf! Did you get to sit in on some sessions about Chef Infra and Chef InSpec? If not, don’t worry! They’ll be available on demand after June 2, so sign up for ChefConf at chefconf.io. In the meantime, it’s time for some talks about Chef Habitat! See the […]
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Welcome back to Upgrading Chef Infra! Last week we kicked things off with a brief introduction and a review of some key concepts. Today we’ll see how Chef Infra has evolved in recent years, and take a look at improvements that have been implemented throughout major releases. While we will discuss some items in detail, […]
Read More Hopefully you know that Chef InSpec is not only an excellent solution for your infrastructure security and compliance needs, but you can also use it to test your infrastructure as code. If you’re looking for some learned advice from experienced InSpec practitioners, we have some great sessions for you! Register for ChefConf Online at chefconf.io, […]
Read More Last week, I had the privilege of announcing the launch of Chef Infra Client 16. In addition to providing a slew of features to improve ease of use, expand platform support and generally improve performance, we’ve invested significantly into improving the process of upgrading Chef Infra. In particular, we’ve added nearly 200 new cops to […]
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On April 30, 2020, two critical security vulnerabilities were identified with the SaltStack open source project (github.com/saltstack/salt). These vulnerabilities are critical and must be patched to avoid potential take over of your systems. This vulnerability has been assigned the highest severity rating, 10.0, according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, an open framework for communicating […]
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Google announced that Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) supports deploying Windows applications in a “cloud native” pattern, leveraging Docker containers. Chef has worked with Google to ensure customers using Chef’s application delivery solution “Habitat” can easily and efficiently package and deploy any Windows application – both modern and legacy – into GKE. GKE orchestrates containers without […]
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