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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Migrating your Chef Server with knife-ec-backup and knife-tidy
Overview Now is a great time to start thinking about deploying a new Chef Server. Exciting new cloud deployment options such as AWS OpsWorks, Marketplace images for Azure & AWS, as well as high-scale options including Chef Backend for On-Prem HA and the AWS Native Chef Server, make now the perfect time to modernize the […]
Read MoreChefDK 0.10.0 Released
Greetings! We released ChefDK 0.10.0 today and it can be obtained from our downloads page. This release includes the following new/updated dependencies: InSpec version 0.9.2 Kitchen InSpec version 0.9.0 Knife Windows 1.1.1 Chef Provisioning 1.5.0 Chef Provisioning AWS 1.6.0 You can view the full release notes on Github, but I have copied them into here […]
Read MoreNew Chef Integrations for Oracle Cloud
This morning at OpenWorld, Oracle formally launched Oracle Cloud and Chef is proud to be a strategic DevOps partner with this new offering. Oracle Cloud, Oracle’s new public cloud offering, is well-positioned to meet the needs of enterprises wishing to extend their on-premises applications into the cloud. Oracle Cloud offers on-demand and dedicated compute resources […]
Read MoreSecurity Releases: Chef Client and Related Products (insecure file ownership)
Today we are announcing security releases of all supported versions of the Chef Client, ChefDK, Chef Container and the Push Jobs client. These releases address package ownership issues on Debian-based platforms. Platforms Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Description Chef products installed from Debian-style .deb packages created files under /opt/<install_dir> with ownership by UID 999 or other […]
Read MoreDeutsche Telekom’s Enterprise DevOps Journey
This is a guest post by Shruti Bhat, Director Products at Ravello Systems While the debate rages on about DevOps for enterprises, one large enterprise brought together rock-solid quality of service and extreme agility to create a “best of worlds” DevOps implementation. Deutsche Telekom cleverly leveraged both VMware and AWS infrastructures with Ravello’s nested virtualization […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Chef Support for HP Helion
We’re excited to announce the release of knife-hp 0.4.0, a major update to the plugin refactored to support the HP Helion Public Cloud version 13.5 release. HP’s API has changed to support a number of new OpenStack features (with many more to come), so the usage of the plugin has changed quite a bit. The new […]
Read MoreGuest Post: Google’s perspective on #ChefConf 2014
We were lucky to have some of the brightest minds in the industry join us this year at ChefConf 2014. GCE is a strategic infrastructure partner in the Chef portfolio and Eric Johnson from Google has been kind enough to share his thoughts as a first time attendee: This was my first time going to ChefConf and […]
Read MoreAwesome Community Chef: Jon Cowie – “(Knife) Sporking Awesomeness”
Computers have fascinated Jon Cowie since he was little. So much so, that he dreamed of being a developer from an early age after encountering BASIC in old Atari magazines. He pursued this dream all the way through university, where he attained a computer science degree in 2005. Then, something happened. While at university, Jon […]
Read MoreJust Released – Update to Knife Plugin for Google Compute Engine
The folks at Google have just published a major update to “knife-google” plugin for Google Compute Engine. Included in this update is a removal of the “gcutil” tookit as an external dependency, meaning that knife-google users can talk directly to the Compute Engine API to spin up new GCE instances and manage them with Chef. […]
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