Ohai Chefs! The new community site, Supermarket, was soft-launched in "beta" on Tuesday, June 17. When it was launched, we weren't enforcing HTTPS/SSL for the site. Yesterday, we deployed a change to enforce redirection from HTTP to HTTPS at the application level, which wound up loading a default Nginx page. This meant that the Supermarket […]
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Supermarket HTTPS Redirect – Public Postmortem Meeting
Earlier today, we deployed a change to force http->https redirect for Supermarket. During the deployment, the load balancer was incorrectly configured, causing Supermarket to be unavailable. At Chef, we conduct postmortem meetings for outages and issues with the site and services. Since Supermarket will be the community site, and we’re developing the application in the […]
Read MoreChef Issue Tracking and Contribution Workflow Updates
Ohai Chefs, Two frequently discussed topics in the community have been issue tracking and the contribution workflow. JIRA has been our issue tracker for a long time and we’ve been using Github from the beginning to host the source code. Our contribution workflow have evolved around the combination of these tools. Having two sources, one […]
Read MoreChef Client Windows Patches for OpenSSL CVE-2014-0224 Vulnerability
Ohai Chefs, We have just released Chef Client versions 11.12.8-2 and 10.32.2-3 which includes the mitigation for the recently reported OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0224. Note that after installing these builds, if you check the OpenSSL version using `OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION` you will see `OpenSSL 1.0.0k 5 Feb 2013`. This is because we are using pre-compiled binaries for windows […]
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 MoreChef + Azure = Awesome
On June 4th with our partner 10th Magnitude, we are launching a technical webinar focused on how Chef is automating and accelerating Azure deployments. In this first webinar, we will share the fundamentals of Chef and Azure, including: Azure and Chef overview Azure VM automation and demo with Chef Provision a Windows virtual machine with […]
Read MoreBerkshelf API Remediation Followup
As you may be aware, on 2014-05-14, there was an outage to the Berkshelf API service that Berkshelf v3+ uses to resolve dependencies from the Community site. We posted previously a postmortem of the incident. I wanted to take a moment and follow-up with the community where we’re at with the remediation items. Chef’s operations […]
Read MoreThoughts from OpenStack Summit
Looking back at last week’s OpenStack “Juno” Summit in Atlanta, there were a tremendous number of great conversations and presentations on OpenStack and Chef. With over 4,500 people there, it was exciting to hear about more and more production deployments of OpenStack with Chef (including the likes of Bloomberg and SAP). We were fortunate to […]
Read MoreICYMI: Ep. 1 of #learnchef Webinar Series
This morning we delivered session #1 in our six part webinar series around learning Chef. We were overwhelmed by your interest, questions and engagement. Thank you to all who attended this morning. If you missed session #1, you still have the opportunity to catch up and join us for the final 5 installments. Today’s session […]
Read Moreapi.berkshelf.com outage and corrective actions
Yesterday api.berkshelf.com suffered periodic outages over about an eight hour window. Upon learning of the outage, we worked with the core berkshelf team to identify the cause; the Heroku dyno was hitting its memory quota. We then assisted in transferring the instance to a Chef Heroku account to cover the costs of moving the instance […]
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