We’ve had a couple of big events in the last month, and I wanted to make sure you saw them! Infra Client 17 Launch At the end of April, we hosted our Chef Infra Client 17’s Virtual Launch, and registration for that event blew away all of our previous webinars. It was so exciting for us to see all […]
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Product Announcement: New Chef Infra Server Automate Functionality and EOL Updates for Chef Manage and Backend
EOL Notice: The end-of-life (EOL) dates for Chef Manage 2.5.x+, Chef Backend 2.x have been extended from December 31, 2021 to December 31, 2022. One of the key ways we are striving to make Chef products easier for enterprises to adopt and scale is by building integrations across the Chef product portfolio that reduce the time and effort needed […]
Read MoreChef Community Recognition Program and Live Celebration
On April 28th Tim Smith (AKA tas50) and I are hosting the launch of Chef Infra Client 17 (register here if you haven’t yet!). As part of the launch, we’re including a Community of Contributors Celebration. I’m excited to be able to start this new annual recognition program that acknowledges both internal and external contributors to Chef’s open-source projects. As part of this program, anyone who […]
Read MoreChef Announcements: New EAS Release, Chef Infra Client 17 and Community Celebration Event
Chef was built around a vibrant, innovative, and supportive community that helped shape the DevOps movement and usher in a series of automation capabilities to help organizations deliver infrastructure and applications quickly and securely. Today, Progress Software announced updates to the Chef portfolio and community program to build on that heritage. The latest Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) release delivers […]
Read MoreGoodbye ChefDK, Hello Chef Workstation
With the end of 2020 fast approaching, ChefDK is nearing end-of-life status. Don’t panic just yet though, because we have a simple upgrade path that will give you even better functionality for managing Chef products. ChefDK was first shipped in 2014 as a way to bundle various tools necessary for developing Chef Infra cookbooks in […]
Read MoreAnnouncing the Chef Infra Server 13 Deprecation
Today we are announcing the deprecation of Chef Infra Server 13, with the eventual end of life (EOL) date of June 30th, 2021. On the EOL date, all development will terminate and no new versions will be released. Why Deprecate Chef Infra Server 13 On October 5th, 2020 we released Chef Infra Server 14, which […]
Read MoreProduct Announcement: Chef Infra Server 14 Now Available
Chef Infra Server acts as an enterprise hub for configuration data. Chef Infra Server stores cookbooks, the policies that are applied to nodes, and metadata that describes each registered node that is being managed by Chef. Nodes use the Chef Infra Client to ask the Chef Infra Server for configuration details, such as recipes, templates, […]
Read MoreUpgrading the Chef Infra Client
Welcome back to the upgrading Chef Infra blog series! Over the past weeks we’ve talked about why you should upgrade and how to upgrade your cookbooks for compatibility through the use of cookstyle. Your cookbooks are now ready to function with the newest Chef Infra versions. After the chef-infra-client upgrade, we will see the following […]
Read MoreUpgrading Your Cookbooks for Compatibility with Chef Infra Client 16
It’s time to talk about Chef Infra upgrades! Last time around, we covered why it’s important to run on the latest client, and reviewed some of the improvements that have been made in the last few years of releases. Today we’re going to dive into some practical advice on how to go about undergoing a […]
Read MoreUpgrading Chef Infra: Why Upgrade
Welcome back to Upgrading Chef Infra! Last week we kicked things off with a brief introduction and a review of some key concepts. Today we’ll see how Chef Infra has evolved in recent years, and take a look at improvements that have been implemented throughout major releases. While we will discuss some items in detail, […]
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