The recently released InSpec 3 expands the developer ecosystem for compliance-as-code through plugins, integrations, and other new capabilities. This post will outline some of the ways that InSpec brings compliance-as-code to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). InSpec 3 includes fully supported platform support for GCP and premium content in Chef Automate for the Center for Internet […]
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Preparing for a compliance audit can be an overwhelming process. Coordinating and translating requirements between teams is often a time consuming, manual process, regressions uncovered between audits can drive friction between internal IT and security teams, and between the rise of cloud and container solutions and numerous emerging regulatory frameworks, the sheer breadth of what […]
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When it comes to audits, many organizations face a dilemma: how to decrease the time and effort spent while improving results? In preparation for an annual PCI audit, Carter McHugh, Executive Director of Agile Architecture at CSG International, decided to partner with Chef Software to automate their audit processes. As a result, CSG reduced audit […]
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This week we passed a significant Learn Chef Rally milestone: more than 25,000 of you have created an account to track your progress! This reinforces that we have an amazing community of users interested in honing their chef skills. With the number of Rally-goers continuing to increase, we’ve decided to spice things up a bit […]
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Today we are announcing the end-of-life date of Chef Server for Linux on IBM Z and Linux on IBM Power Systems to be May 1, 2019. Support for Chef Server on the x86_64 processor architecture is not affected by this announcement. Chef also continues to support Chef Client for Linux on IBM Z and Linux […]
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Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in October across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.6.47. In this release, we are rolling out some major improvements to the package size of Chef Client that resulted in a 50% size reduction on Linux/macOS and […]
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A little over two years ago, the Habitat project was begun, with the idea that applications can move much faster if we design automation from the application’s point of view. This took the form of an abstraction, and a contract, between the application layer and the underlying infrastructure beneath it. Since then, we have worked […]
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We are excited to announce that Chef Workstation, which we first released in beta at ChefConf 2018, is now generally available. Chef Workstation provides everything you need to get started with Chef in a straightforward one-click installation, and to start delivering infrastructure automation without the need to set up any other software like a Chef […]
Read More 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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