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 […]
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Goodbye, Foodcritic
All good things come to an end, and now is the time to say goodbye to Foodcritic. In 2011, Andrew Crump did the Chef community a huge service by writing what would become the defacto standard code linter for Chef Cookbooks. Foodcritic was a ground up code linting tool built especially for Chef Cookbooks. Since […]
Read MoreAn Important Update from Chef
Below is a message that I sent to all Chef employees today about recent events affecting Chef. Chefs, I want to provide an update on recent events affecting Chef and changes that we’re making. As many of you know, we began our work with the U.S. Government in earnest in 2014 and 2015. This […]
Read MoreAn Update to the Chef Community Regarding Current Events
[Update on 9/23/2019 at 7.15am] Read blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. I would like to provide an update to the community about the incident that impacted Chef-client run failures yesterday and give you a sense of what has been happening behind the scenes. As many of you know, […]
Read MoreA Personal Message From the CTO
[Update on 9/23/2019 at 8.55pm] Read this blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. Yesterday was one of the most trying days of my career. You, the community, have been very vocal about your views over the last few days on serious issues in the United States (particularly within the […]
Read MoreChef’s Position on Customer Engagement in the Public and Private Sectors
[Update on 9/23/2019 at 8.55pm] Read this blog from CEO Barry Crist for a further update on the event. Below is an e-mail I sent to all Chef employees today sharing my views on our contract with DHS-ICE. This is an incredibly important, difficult and divisive topic and one I care deeply about. Chefs, Thank […]
Read MoreLearn Chef Rally: What a Treat!
The Learn Chef Rally team is celebrating a major milestone, and you’re invited to party with us! In an effort to make our learning materials more accessible, and to enable more people to use and understand the principles of our agile, ever-changing tech world, Learn Chef Rally has undergone a lot of growth and changes […]
Read MoreChef Announcements: Making It Easier
These are exciting and often daunting times for IT organizations. The growth and competitiveness of every enterprise depends on digital transformation, but lurking below the buzzword is a complex tangle of manual effort and blind hope. Today Chef announced a host of product enhancements to the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack to make it easier for […]
Read MoreChef Software is the First CIS Partner Certified on AWS, Azure, and GCP
Chef is excited to announce that we have achieved official Center for Internet Security certification on the Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmarks (level 1 & level 2). With this certification, Chef Software is the first CIS partner to be certified on all three cloud providers for which they publish security benchmarks: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft […]
Read MoreAchieving Federal Compliance with Chef Automate and Chef InSpec
Federal agencies work hard to provide value to consumers of their services, but in order to deliver updates at the velocity their customers demand, they must ensure their infrastructure is hardened and secure throughout the software development lifecycle. Chef Software, for over a decade, has helped Federal agencies automate how they build and manage this […]
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