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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When we announced the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) in late 2015, our aims were to: Provide a forum for individuals, users, and companies to discuss the issues within the CBGB Scope. Provide guidance and input to Leadership, and where possible, present a consistent and consolidated opinion from the broader Chef community. Produce a formal, […]
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Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in August across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef Client 14.4 is the newest in the Chef 14 series, and includes seven new preview resources, many improvements to existing resources, and a brand new Knife profile management command. Chef Client […]
Read More“If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe”, and if you wish to build an app using the interpreted language framework of your choice, you usually have to install a whole universe of dependencies. If your build environment is persistent, you probably don’t feel the pain of waiting […]
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Summary If you use the VMware ecosystem in your day to day job, you may have seen the incubation InSpec project inspec-vmware and got excited about the possibilities of running InSpec tests against your VMware Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC)s and VMware on AWS. If you haven’t seen the inspec-vmware project, imagine the ability to audit/validate […]
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Sensu 2.0 and Habitat are both modern distributed systems, one for monitoring, the other for application packaging and deployment. Over the last few months, we at Indellient, a Chef partner, have been working on packaging Sensu in Habitat to take advantage of some of its features for dynamic service discovery and configuration updates, critical capabilities […]
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Audits are stressful. If your organization is subject to regulatory compliance rules, chances are you’ve experienced firsthand how time-consuming and painful they can be. Preparing for and satisfying an audit is often a multi-month process with e-mails and documents flying between auditors, compliance officers, information security professionals, and the teams responsible for your infrastructure and […]
Read MoreThe world of application packaging and deployment can be viewed as a spectrum where at one end we have hand-crafted installation/run scripts on physical infrastructure and on the other are fully containerized applications making the most of cloud-native services. Since most organisations don’t start out fully cloud-native or containerized, a commonly heard phrase for increasing […]
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