Chef will cease publishing to Bintray on December 30th, 2016. We will also delete all existing artifacts from https://bintray.com/chef on this date. Why are you doing this? When we completed our work to migrate to Bintray, we realized that we had done a significant amount of the work necessary to internalize and manage a much […]
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Chef Client 12.14.60 – Escaped defects and corrective actions
Despite our normal testing and processes, the 12.14.60 release of Chef Client included a number of regressions and escaped defects (you may also call them “bugs”). One of the defects was the yum_repository resource which was added and released in chef-client version 12.14.60. The resource was previously shipped as part of and provided by the […]
Read More“Shift Left” Security and Compliance Automation with InSpec and Chef
Velocity needs control to be successful. As DevOps delivers high-velocity, high-performing digital transformation for business, there is increased focus on the need for security and compliance capabilities to match. Balancing these two seemingly contradictory demands – velocity and control – is difficult. We’re excited that our launch of InSpec 1.0, and its integration with Chef […]
Read MoreAnnouncing InSpec 1.0 – Compliance as Code
One year ago, we released InSpec, an open-source project for infrastructure and test automation that helps companies incorporate compliance into their deployment pipelines. Today, after 70 releases, and with a great development community to support us, we are proud to announce InSpec 1.0 and the launch of inspec.io. InSpec for DevOps InSpec is primarily for […]
Read MoreChef Server HA: The best way to run Chef Server
We’re very pleased to announce that Chef Server HA is now available in full release.
Chef Server HA is a completely new high availability (HA) architecture designed for mission-critical performance and reliability. It replaces the HA topologies that were previously available as part of the Chef Server package.
Read MoreChef Server HA Beta: The best way to run Chef Server
Signups are now open for the Chef Server HA beta program! Chef Server HA 2.0 is a completely new high availability (HA) architecture designed for mission-critical performance and reliability. During the open-invite beta period, running from now until July 1st, you’ll be able to try out this new feature and provide feedback. Chef Server HA 2.0 […]
Read MorePackageCloud Repositories Disabled, Please Migrate to packages.chef.io
As previously announced we’ve disabled our PackageCloud APT/YUM repositories for the current and stable release channels effective today. Please migrate to the equivalent packages.chef.io repository as documented on docs.chef.io. The latest versions of the apt-chef or yum-chef cookbooks will automate this repo configuration for you. The following projects have been updated to support our new […]
Read MoreChef Compliance 1.0 Release
Chef Compliance 1.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a major release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance. We enhanced capabilities for Chef Compliance to enable automated management of compliance policies that are based on the broadly used Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks. Users can now […]
Read MoreMoving release and security announcements to Discourse
The volume of posts on our blog has continued to increase as our company and community have grown. While all of the content has been awesome, we’ve received many requests for a dedicated channel about security and release announcements. Today, we’re excited to say we’ve heard you and are adding two specific communication channels to […]
Read MoreChefDK 0.12.0 Released
We are happy to announce a new ChefDK, version 0.12.0, has landed in the stable channel and is available for download on the Get Chef downloads site. There has not been much in the way of updates to the DK itself, but there have been updates to several of the dependent packages we bundle. Here […]
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