Chef Habitat provides automation capabilities for building and delivering applications to any environment. Both operations and development teams benefit from the adoption of a consistent configuration process used across all applications. Developers define and build a package for their application, with the dependencies needed at build time and runtime. Build packages can be exported to […]
Read MoreAuthor: Salim Alam
Salim Alam is a Principal Software Engineer at Chef, and a technical lead on the Habitat team. His areas of focus include Habitat Builder, on-premises deployment, OAuth and identity, as well as cross-platform support for features such as certificate management. He has also worked across Chef on products such as Chef Client, Chef DK, and Chef Automate.
Chef Habitat Product Announcement: Improved TLS Certificate Management
We are happy to announce significant updates to how TLS certificates are handled in the Chef Habitat 0.85 release. The changes simplify the process of ensuring custom enterprise certificates (self-signed, or otherwise) are utilized appropriately in the Habitat ecosystem. While the new certificate handling model may not address every scenario, it should go a long […]
Read MoreIntroducing Habitat On-Premises Builder Depot
Introduction One of the frequent requests that we have had since we introduced public Habitat Builder last year has been to allow Habitat users to have the same workflow behind the firewall in their private cloud- and on-premises infrastructure. There are several reasons why this can be desirable – for example, having an enterprise policy […]
Read MoreIntroducing Habitat Personal Access Tokens
What are Habitat tokens? With a recent revision of the Habitat builder site, some brand new functionality has now become available for Habitat users. Currently, when you are using the Habitat client for operations that require you to be authenticated as a Habitat user and/or origin owner or member, the way you can do this […]
Read MoreHabitat at RustConf
We were delighted to attend and sponsor the first annual RustConf in Portland, OR on September 10th. Friday before the conference, we held a Habitat Meetup where we talked about the technical details of Habitat development. It was fun meeting and talking with fellow Rustaceans for two days. Habitat Habitat is our largest Rust-based project […]
Read MoreUpdate on native 64-bit Windows Chef Client
It’s been a while since we had an update on the status of the native 64-bit Windows Chef client While we have been busy shipping a myriad of new releases and features since Nov, we have not forgotten the 64-bit work! In fact, I’m very happy to report that we now have the 64-bit builds […]
Read MoreChef Client 12.6.0 Release Announcement
Ohai Chefs, ChefSalim here, excited to be bringing you tidings of joy with a release announcement for Chef Client 12.6.0! The happy elves at the Chef Toy Workshop have been hard at work crafting, polishing and shining all the little bits that go into a Chef release, and after a final burst of frenzied activity […]
Read MorePre-release Announcement : Native 64-bit Windows Chef Client
Note: there is an update to this post here. Ohai Chefs! I’m happy to share some exciting news for our Windows users – we now have a native 64-bit Chef Client available for you to download and try out here. This version of Chef Client includes a 64-bit version of Ruby, and addresses one of […]
Read More