We’re very excited to be at the OpenStack Summit this week in Atlanta, there’s a whole lot going on. On Wednesday we’ll be sharing booth E14 (next to the demo theater) with our friends at Blue Box, stop by, get some swag and say “hi”! There are a tremendous number of interesting sessions on the […]
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TechEd 2014 Preview
It’s been an amazing spring for our partnership and integration with Microsoft. Next week you can find us at the TechEd conference in Houston sharing how we can help customers automate their Windows and Azure workloads. In our TechEd booth we’ll showcase all of our recent announcements from //Build and #ChefConf including: The latest DSC […]
Read MoreChef Fundamentals Webinar Series
Hopefully you joined us at #ChefConf 2014 or have been inspired by the sessions online. Now is the time to come and learn how you can make your business move at the speed of true WebScale-IT. Join us and #learnchef! We are launching a free, 6 part, hands-on, weekly webinar training series, May 20th at […]
Read MoreChefDK for Windows: Progress Update
Hi Chefs, I’d like to give you a quick update on our progress towards shipping a Windows build of ChefDK. I know that with the dependency solver changes in Berkshelf 3, it can be a struggle to get berks running on Windows so we’re working to get you a build as soon as we can. […]
Read MoreChef & VMware Integration
VMware joined us at #ChefConf 2014 as a Gold sponsor and speaker. We’re working with VMware to jointly improve our offering as showcased at ChefConf. VMware’s vCloud Application Director (vCAD) lets you build deployment blueprints with a drag and drop interface for vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). vCAD provides a variety of ways to integrate with […]
Read MoreChef Development Kit
Ohai Chefs, The first version of Chef Development Kit (a.k.a. Chef DK) is here. What is Chef DK? Chef DK is a package that contains all the development tools you will need when coding Chef. It combines the best of the breed tools developed by Chef community with Chef Client. Here is what you can […]
Read MorePostmortem: Chef Client Regressions and Heartbleed
Ohai Chefs, Last Tuesday 04-08-2014 7:12 PM, we released Chef Client 11.12.0 which contained 3 regressions (CHEF-5198, CHEF-5199 and OHAI-562). Subsequently, we released a new version of Chef Client which addressed these issues on Wednesday 04-09-2014 6:28 PM. However, during the 24 hours in between, users of Chef were not able to: Mitigate the Heartbleed […]
Read MoreManagement Console Enterprise Chef Add-on 1.3.1 Released
Hello! We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Management Console for Enterprise Chef 11, 1.3.1. Please contact support@getchef.com for details on obtaining this release. Security Updates Update OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160) Update Rack::SSL (CVE-2014-2538) Update libyaml (CVE-2014-2525) About the OpenSSL Update OpenSSL was updated to 1.0.1g to address The Heartbleed Bug. […]
Read MoreHosted Enterprise Chef Search API Downtime
Ohai Chefs, Yesterday (2014-04-08) at 22:39 UTC to 23:16 UTC, Hosted Enterprise Chef search API requests were returning 502 HTTP response codes. One of the “killer features” of using a Chef Server is the search capability, so I know many of our customers rely on that API. I’m sorry that the search API was not […]
Read MoreChef Server Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) Releases
Ohai Chefs! Today we’re releasing patched versions of Open Source Chef Server and Enterprise Chef that address the OpenSSL security vulnerability CVE-2014-0160, also known as Heartbleed. We recommend that you upgrade your Chef Server install immediately. You will need to take the following steps to fully address the OpenSSL vulnerability: Upgrade to the Latest Version […]
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