HPE Discover gets underway this week and it’s a great opportunity to see how HPE and Chef seamlessly integrate to help companies of all sizes manage their IT infrastructure. Chef and HPE’s enterprise systems encourage modern day cloud velocity to get your organization on the path towards digital transformation. With Chef and HPE, you can […]
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ChefConf 2018 Keynote Video: Product Vision & Announcements
It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year. Corey Scobie, our new SVP of Product and Engineering, announced the general availability of Chef Automate 2, […]
Read MoreChef Open Source Community News – May 2018
Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world. Chef […]
Read MoreChef Automate 2 – A Modern Platform for Continuous Automation
We are delighted to announce the general availability of Chef Automate 2, a major upgrade to our continuous automation platform. Chef Automate 2 is the culmination of a nine month re-architecture initiative to improve performance, scale and responsiveness. A refreshed UI allows you to see all infrastructure and compliance events in one interface and most […]
Read MoreRelativity’s Cloud Theory Becomes Reality with Azure, Chef, and 10th Magnitude
Bringing your companies platform to the cloud with the goal of developing software with speed requires a solid strategy and key partner integration. Relativity, an e-discovery platform for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects, realized together with Microsoft Azure, Chef Automate, and 10th Magnitude, this could be a reality. In 2016, Relativity was working to […]
Read MoreChef Open Source Community News – April 2018
Here’s what happened in the Chef, Habitat and InSpec open-source communities over the last month. Chef The biggest news from the Chef project is that we released Chef 14, a faster and easier to use Chef. We’ve already covered all the major changes in a couple of blog posts and a webinar so we won’t […]
Read MoreUsing AWS Systems Manager to Run Compliance Scans Using InSpec
Starting today, all AWS customers have the ability to perform compliance as code using InSpec through AWS EC2 Systems Manager (SSM). InSpec, an open-source testing framework from Chef, provides teams the ability to define and assess system state and status across the entire application lifecycle. InSpec can already be used with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate to […]
Read MoreOpen Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software
How do you build a successful, profitable company on top of open-source software, when you’re giving away the core product? In this post, which accompanies a talk I’m giving at the Linux Foundation’s 2018 Open Source Leadership Summit, I’ll discuss how building a company on an open-source foundation is a fundamentally aggressive move, yet has […]
Read MoreHabitat and Helm Exporter
A group of Habitat core team members is at Helm Summit in beautiful (but surprisingly frosty) Portland this week, to learn more about how Helm contributors are continuing to automate application deployment and management to Kubernetes clusters. This week we also released our new Habitat and Helm exporter and we are excited to share this […]
Read MorePreparing for Chef 14 release and Chef 12 End-of-Life
As we previously announced, April 2018 will mark two important milestones for Chef Client and ChefDK: Chef Client 14 and ChefDK 3 will be released near the beginning of April. This represent the fastest and easiest-to-use versions of Chef to date. Chef Client 12 and ChefDK 1 will become end-of-life on April 30, 2018. This means […]
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