Chef has always been built atop a very strong open-source community. However, we’ve heard from many of you that it’s hard to find news about new features being developed in our open-source projects. Thus, we are starting 2018 off by trying something new, which is to summarize open source developments in Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and […]
Read MoreIcinga 2 Cookbooks: Breaking up the All-In-One Cookbook
For vendors, configuration management has become as important as the software itself. As a vendor you should take responsibility and provide proper cookbooks for your software that fulfill the requirements for as many users as possible. The Icinga 2 cookbook used to manage all of the components you need to get your monitoring servers and […]
Read More2017 Habitat Year in Review
Wow. 2017 Is finally drawing to a close. Part of me feels like this year has stretched on forever, and part of me feels like I was looking at a 2016 calendar just yesterday. No matter how it is you feel about things that have occurred in the world over the last year there’s at […]
Read MoreChef Gives 2017
Community is foundational here at Chef and and a major ingredient in our recipe for success. This year, we encouraged each other to be mindful of how fortunate we are and to pay that forward to as many communities as possible. Many of us at Chef already have organizations and communities we are passionate about […]
Read MoreChefConf 2018 CFP: Delivering Delight
ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! ChefConf is the largest community gathering and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. We are proud of the role this event plays in giving community members a chance to share […]
Read MoreChefConf 2018 CFP: People, Process, and Teams
ChefConf is the largest community gathering and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team! ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open. One […]
Read MoreChefConf 2018 CFP: Application Automation Track
ChefConf is the largest Chef community gathering and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team! ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open. […]
Read MoreIntegrating Chef into your VSTS Builds
Here at Chef we have been working with Microsoft to create integrations for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). VSTS is an invaluable and versatile tool to bring together pipelines within your environments. The pipelines are made up of tasks. These tasks are either core tasks built into VSTS (e.g. created by Microsoft) or available in […]
Read MoreChefConf 2018 CFP: Compliance Automation Track
ChefConf is the largest community gathering and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team! ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open. One of […]
Read MoreWhy do Enterprise Organizations Need Communities of Practice?
Many large enterprises and mid-sized organizations are looking to build and strengthen their internal culture to improve knowledge sharing, increase working morale and improve staff retention. Only a few years ago these same companies would have turned to Centres of Excellence (CoE) but instead they are looking to leverage Communities of Practice (CoP). So what’s […]
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