After taking Chef Essentials or spending time on learn.chef.io, you might still feel there’s a gulf between what you’ve learned and the details of automating your real-world infrastructure. In this article, I’ll outline some common starting points for writing your own Chef recipes, and point you to frequently-used tools and reference resources. What should you […]
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Chef 101: The Road to Best Practices
When someone asks a question about best practices, myself included, they’re usually looking for a ‘what’ and a ‘how’. It’s important, however, not to lose sight of the ‘why’ as well. Any best practice can easily become an anti-pattern if we don’t have a clear idea of how it benefits us. Once again, context can […]
Read MoreCelebrating 10k registered users on Learn Chef Rally
The Learn Chef team has some news to share! In only four months since we launched the new learning site for Chef practitioners we’ve reached an awesome milestone – over 10,000 users have created a Learn Chef Rally account to track their learning progress. To help us celebrate, head on over to Learn Chef Rally […]
Read MoreWhat’s new in Chef Certification 2.0
There are some exciting things happening in Chef Certification right now. If you dipped in previously and haven’t progressed, then you should come back to check it out. Before you do, here are some highlights of the changes. New: Blended exam format If you’ve sat Local Cookbook Development or Extending Chef exams, you’ll know that […]
Read MoreBuild your IT automation and DevOps skills this summer
The dog days of summer are upon us making it a great time to stay inside with the air-conditioning to focus on developing your IT automation and DevOps skills. While planning this blog post, I came across a quote from Bob Melk, President of Dice: “Skills that were used a year ago may not be […]
Read MoreLearn Chef Rally: More Reasons to Learn
I am excited to see that so many of you have checked out the new Learn Chef Rally site – https://learn.chef.io. There is a lot of Chef learning available to you and we want to encourage you to continue to go through tracks and modules. I know that learning Chef is an important achievement in […]
Read MoreGet Chef Certified for 20% Off with our Summer Discount
The community of Chefs at ChefConf 2017 took full advantage of our on-site certification exams. All told, we delivered over 300 exams. Many people took multiple exams and we had 9 people pass the required three exams to become a Certified Chef Developer. This was a significant achievement, considering we only offered the exams for […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Chef Automate Compliance Training Course
How can you ensure that your systems are secure without slowing down your deployments? Use Chef Automate for compliance. Chef Automate compliance is a solution that allows you to assess your infrastructure’s adherence to compliance requirements and to monitor that infrastructure on an ongoing basis. With Chef Automate compliance, you can express your security requirements […]
Read MoreChef Announcements: Lighting the Path from Here to There
Technology shifts, such as the moves toward cloud-native applications and container-first architectures, make it clear that tomorrow will look very different from today. But how to get from here to there? Today Chef announced a host of new product features, partner offerings, and skill-building opportunities that, taken together, light a path for enterprises to follow. At […]
Read MoreLearn Chef Rally: New learning site for Chef practitioners
I’m excited to announce the launch of our new learning site for Chef practitioners, Learn Chef Rally. What exactly is Learn Chef Rally? It’s a rethinking of how we help our community of practitioners – both newbies and grizzled veterans – to start and continue learning about Chef, continuous automation, compliance, and DevOps. It serves as […]
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