Chef Workstation Released as Generally Available! Chef Workstation, the toolkit for infrastructure automation and compliance, has reached General Availability (GA) with lots of great new features and changes. In addition to a new and easier to use Chef Infra Client 16, Chef Workstation now includes “Upgrade Lab” which helps simplify upgrading from older versions of […]
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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 MoreChef Open Source Community News – September 2018
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in September across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.5.33, which includes two new resources: windows_workgroup, which allows you to modify the system’s Windows workgroup, and locale, which sets the system locale. Thank you to community members […]
Read MoreChef Workstation – How We Made that Demo
Editor’s Note: ChefConf 2018 ‘How We Did It’ Series Welcome to final entry in our How We Did It series based on demos from the ChefConf 2018 Product Vision & Announcements keynote presentation. Today, Seth Thomas, Software Development Engineer on our Workstation team, will show us the newest project from Chef, Chef Workstation, and walk […]
Read MoreChef Open Source Community News – May 2018
Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world. Chef […]
Read MoreChef DK 3.0 Released
Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 3.0. With this release, you can detect and correct issues across more platforms faster than ever before with the addition of Chef 14 and InSpec 2. Chef 14 Chef 14 brings with it a variety of performance and workflow improvements, as well as nearly thirty […]
Read MoreWhat’s new in Chef 14 and ChefDK 3
At the beginning of April we announced the release of Chef Client 14. Shortly after, I presented a live webinar: What’s new in Chef 14 and ChefDK 3. In case you missed it, watch a recording of the presentation below to see the newest features included in this release. You can download Chef 14 here. Chef 14 […]
Read MoreKitchen-Docker or Kitchen-Dokken? Using Test Kitchen and Docker for fast cookbook testing
Chef’s Test Kitchen project allows for fast functional testing of infrastructure code. In the past few years, the rise of container technologies like Docker have allowed devops engineers to speed up this feedback cycle, since the startup time of a container is much faster than that of a VM image that needs to be cloned […]
Read MoreComing soon: Chef Client 14 and Chef Development Kit 3
At Chef, we understand that Infrastructure Automation enables your business to succeed, but it isn’t the reason your business exists. Ultimately, all software is a careful balancing act of introducing new features, fixing bugs, and saying no to ideas that we might love to do but are too disruptive–and it’s up to us to ensure […]
Read MoreChef 101: The Road to Best Practices
When someone asks a question about best practices, myself included, they’re usually looking for a ‘what’ and a ‘how’. It’s important, however, not to lose sight of the ‘why’ as well. Any best practice can easily become an anti-pattern if we don’t have a clear idea of how it benefits us. Once again, context can […]
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