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 […]
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Zero 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 […]
Read MoreTest Driven Cookbook Development in 2017
We are constantly asked to deliver our infrastructure faster at what seems like a compromise of its quality. Waiting until it’s time to deploy into production is not the moment to see if the cookbooks we have written will work. By adopting a test driven approach to cookbook development we quickly receive feedback through simple […]
Read MoreChef Community Engineering – Q2 Update
It’s hard to believe we’re half way through the year already, but having had a chance to meet with and celebrate our community at ChefConf in Austin a couple months ago, we’ve had a really phenomenal second quarter. I’m really excited to share some of the things we’ve been up to, together! Cookbook Engineering The cookbook […]
Read MoreDetect & Correct with Chef Automate and the Audit Cookbook
The recent launch of Chef Automate 1.5 brought with it the GA release of a new Compliance view to the Chef Automate UI. This update brings with it some new detailed compliance reporting dashboards, as well as a means to easily install and manage InSpec Profiles without needing to deploy a separate Compliance Server. To […]
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