We’ve been gearing up for this year’s installment of AWS re:Invent, the biggest event in the AWS universe with over 60,000 attendees coming together in Las Vegas to learn about the latest and greatest innovations coming to the AWS Cloud. Chef has a full week of activities planned at the conference–check out the summary below. […]
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Chef Open Source Community News – October 2018
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in October across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.6.47. In this release, we are rolling out some major improvements to the package size of Chef Client that resulted in a 50% size reduction on Linux/macOS and […]
Read MoreShelving Composites (for now)
A little over one year ago, Christopher Maier presented the ability to create composite packages, a special kind of Habitat package that includes other Habitat packages in order to be managed by a single Supervisor. The Habitat community had been finding all sorts of creative ways to use Habitat to incorporate their services under a […]
Read MoreHabitat® and Chef® Automate for Applications
A little over two years ago, the Habitat project was begun, with the idea that applications can move much faster if we design automation from the application’s point of view. This took the form of an abstraction, and a contract, between the application layer and the underlying infrastructure beneath it. Since then, we have worked […]
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 MoreNew Videos: Getting Started with Habitat and Application Automation
We have some exciting news! Chef is introducing a series of short videos for Habitat on YouTube: Getting Started with Habitat. This playlist focuses on Habitat – including getting started, core concepts, and practical tips. If you’re interested in application automation or you’re looking to modernize your legacy apps, these five new videos will help you […]
Read MoreIn Search of Speed: The State of Applications
We are very pleased to announce the results from Chef’s 2018 State of Applications Survey. Earlier this year, we partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 347 applications and IT operations professionals worldwide on the topic of application build and release processes. We also asked them to describe their current and future production infrastructure deployments to […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Chef Support for Azure DevOps
Today we are excited to support the launch of Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server). Chef Extension for Azure DevOps The Chef extension for Azure DevOps enables users within organizations to integrate Chef into the build and release phases of their DevOps toolset; specifically, the Azure Pipelines component of the […]
Read MoreHabitat and Azure: Cloud Migration for Any App, Anywhere
Businesses today are in the process of augmenting or even shutting down their data centers, and moving into the public cloud. As customers move their services into Azure or other cloud providers, they quickly confronted by a breadth of questions some of which are listed below. How do we most effectively move our services into […]
Read MoreChef Open Source Community News – August 2018
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in August across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef Client 14.4 is the newest in the Chef 14 series, and includes seven new preview resources, many improvements to existing resources, and a brand new Knife profile management command. Chef Client […]
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