We’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 2.0. This release updates many of the tools included in Chef DK, which provides more features and functionality, and adds support for partner integrations. Chef DK 2.0 contains Chef Client 13.2, and is the best way to develop, validate, and deploy Chef cookbooks. We’ve included the […]
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Thom is an engineer on Chef's Community Engineering team, based in London. He works on Chef, ohai, cookbooks and pretty much anything else Chef has ever shipped.
Upgrading to Chef Client 13 – Answers to all your questions
It’s great to see how much excitement there is for the upcoming release of Chef Client 13 on April 10th! We’ve had a bunch of questions about this release. I’ll address some of the frequently asked questions here so you’ll be prepared to upgrade. How do I get Chef Client 13 today? Builds are flowing in the current […]
Read MorePreparing for Chef Client 13
Over the last year, we’ve adopted a monthly release cadence for Chef. This has served us well, giving our users (and our staff!) a predictable schedule and making it safer and easier to release a version of Chef than ever before. Now, it’s time to introduce the next step. Every April we’ll release a new […]
Read MoreChef: A year in the life
This year at the Chef Community Summit in London, fellow engineer Tim Smith and I presented an overview of the state of the Chef ecosystem. We took a look at some of the new functionality available in modern Chef clients. It’s fair to say that both Tim and I were surprised by how much had happened in […]
Read MoreChef 11.18.12 Released
Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.12. This release updates OpenSSL to 1.0.1m, solving the issues listed in the [recent security announcement](http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt). ## Wait… You skipped 11.18.8 and 11.18.10 I found minor issues with both of these releases (failing Windows tests, incorrect gem version). Sorry for any confusion. ## How to get it? You can […]
Read MoreChef Client 12.3.0 Released
Ohai Chefs! We’ve just released Chef Client 12.3.0. This release includes bug fixes as well couple of new goodies… we hope you enjoy them. You can check out the [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/12.3.0/CHANGELOG.md) for a full set of the changes. # What’s New ## Socketless Chef Zero Local Mode All requests to the Chef Zero server in local mode use Chef […]
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