Last week Chef announced the February release of Chef Automate. This marks the GA release of the compliance scanner with job scheduling, and adds features to make analysis easier, such as date-range search. Chef Automate now provides compliance scanning capabilities for a full range of enterprise needs: agent-based scans to provide continuous visibility into status; […]
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Chef Open Source Community News – January 2018
Chef has always been built atop a very strong open-source community. However, we’ve heard from many of you that it’s hard to find news about new features being developed in our open-source projects. Thus, we are starting 2018 off by trying something new, which is to summarize open source developments in Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and […]
Read MoreThe Journey to Continuous Automation
At Chef, we believe that the most successful organizations are those that can outperform their peers on metrics of speed, efficiency, and risk. While there are clear benefits to be had by making measurable improvements on any of these outcomes, taken individually those benefits can only go so far. The ability to deploy code more […]
Read More2017 InSpec Year in Review
2017 has been an incredible year for InSpec; the community continues to grow and the project continues to evolve in amazing ways. As the year winds down, I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on our collective accomplishments. By The Numbers Since the beginning of the year, we have merged 520 pull requests […]
Read More2017 Habitat Year in Review
Wow. 2017 Is finally drawing to a close. Part of me feels like this year has stretched on forever, and part of me feels like I was looking at a 2016 calendar just yesterday. No matter how it is you feel about things that have occurred in the world over the last year there’s at […]
Read MoreChef Automate Release – December 2017
Last week Chef announced the December release of Chef Automate, which builds on significant compliance automation capabilities delivered during 2017. Our customers use Chef Automate to detect and correct policy violations that indicate non-compliance with standards ranging from company policies to government regulations. To help customers meet these standards and keep pace with increasing complexity, […]
Read MoreModernizing Deployments with Chef and Habitat at Media Temple
Media Temple has been a leading web hosting provider for nearly 20 years. As a Software Developer there, George Marshall is responsible for focusing on products that help their customers realize their goals in taking their ideas online. We recently interviewed George about how his team is using Chef and Habitat. You can watch a […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday OWCA! Plus the Latest Chef Innovations for AWS Customers
Last year at AWS re:Invent, Chef was excited to join Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels to announce the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). As the first provider of configuration management through OpsWorks, Chef has a long standing commitment to the success of AWS customers. Today, I want to share some of our […]
Read MoreA Preview of new Chef support for AWS customers
Last year at re:Invent 2016, Amazon announced the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). Chef, available as a service to Amazon customers, opened up continuous automation to a whole new generation of customers creating cloud-native applications. This past year has been busy for Chef, as we have extended our support for AWS customers to […]
Read MoreAutomate Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
It’s been almost a full year since we announced AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate – a native AWS service that provides Chef Automate and Chef Server managed by Amazon. In that time, we’ve found that customers love how quick it is to get started and how easy it is to maintain. Today we’re announcing that […]
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