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 […]
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Microsoft SQL Server cookbook release – 5.4.0
Hello and Happy New Year Chef’s! It is 2018 and what better way to start the new year off than with an exciting cookbook release. I’m happy to announce that we have just released version 5.4.0 of the sql_server cookbook. Now, I know you’re thinking that this is not a major release. However, it comes […]
Read MoreSignal Sciences Cookbook Certified by the Chef Partner Cookbook Program
Signal Sciences is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. This certifies the Signal Sciences Cookbook as a top quality Chef cookbook. The cookbook installs and configures Signal Sciences in your infrastructure. About Signal Sciences Signal Sciences Web Protection Platform (WPP) provides comprehensive threat protection and security visibility for web applications, microservices, and APIs […]
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 MoreZero to Continuous Automation on Bare Metal Using HPE and Chef
In our last blog post, we gave you an introduction and high-level overview of how Chef Automate and HPE OneView work together to enable cloud-like speed on bare metal hardware. In this post, we’ll explore a bit deeper with technical details and code examples. The Old Way There are the three main requirements to run […]
Read MoreContinuous Automation Using HPE Synergy and Chef Automate
As we kick off HPE Discovery today in Madrid, it’s a great opportunity to look at how HPE and Chef are working together to help IT organizations build and manage great applications securely at scale. HPE and Chef have partnered together to bring cloud-like speed and automation to the world of bare metal hardware. You […]
Read MoreGuest Blog Post: Ensuring Agent Compliance with Chef Automate
Besides helping ensure compliance with regulatory standards, InSpec is a great solution for detecting compliance with your organization’s own rules and expectations. Our friends at Jack Henry & Associates Inc. recently detected and corrected an issue in their environment thanks to the power of InSpec and Chef Automate. Jack Henry provides IT services to over […]
Read MoreAnnouncing enhanced Chef support to provision and configure resources on Google Cloud Platform
We are excited to announce a new integration between Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Chef. For the ever increasing number of Chef customers using GCP, these GCP specific cookbooks are consistent, cohesive and comprehensive. They enable Chef practitioners to quickly, declare and request resources from GCP. The work for these Chef cookbooks to automate GCP […]
Read MoreI did the tutorial, now what? Getting started with Chef on real infrastructure
After taking Chef Essentials or spending time on learn.chef.io, you might still feel there’s a gulf between what you’ve learned and the details of automating your real-world infrastructure. In this article, I’ll outline some common starting points for writing your own Chef recipes, and point you to frequently-used tools and reference resources. What should you […]
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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