On Tuesday, February 2nd, I co-presented a live webinar on the Chef DevOps Journey Assessment or DOJO with Thomas Enochs, VP Customer Success. The DOJO is an exercise Chef developed to help companies get better results from their DevOps adoption. It gives your team a shared understanding of where you are on your journey and […]
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Automate to Migrate on Channel 9
Fully embracing the power of the Chef ecosystem has had a tremendous impact in allowing people to continuously deliver your infrastructure no matter where it lives. With Chef being cloud agnostic as to where it is deployed, it allows people to reliably build out their infrastructure on premise, or to the cloud of their choosing. […]
Read MoreChef Delivery: A Guided Tour
Chef Delivery accelerates the adoption of continuous delivery and encourages DevOps collaboration. It provides a proven, reproducible workflow for managing changes as they progress from a developer’s workstation, through a series of automated tests, and out into production. In this recorded webinar (presented on November 17, 2015), Nathen Harvey and Michael Ducy introduce you to […]
Read MoreStatic Analysis: Improving the quality and consistency of your cookbooks
Every time we make changes to our cookbooks we are introducing risk. We can stop making changes to reduce the risk OR we can adopt new practices, like linting and testing, to help us manage that risk. Linting tools provide automated ways to ensure that the code we write adheres to conventions that ensure code […]
Read MoreCustom Resources in Chef Client 12.5
On October 28, 2015, Chef Principal Engineer John Keiser presented a webinar on Custom Resources in Chef Client 12.5. John introduced the concept of the custom resource, explained why you would want to write one, introduced the language concepts, and walked through a tutorial of how to make your own. A recording of the webinar is available below. Q&A […]
Read MoreChef Policies: Why, What, and How
On Wednesday, September 30th, software engineer Joshua Timberman presented a webinar on Chef Policies, a new feature of Chef. Policies combine the best parts of roles, environments, and client-side dependency resolvers such as Berkshelf into a single, easy-to-use workflow. By using policies, you can apply a specific set of cookbooks to a node or nodes with […]
Read MoreTest Kitchen: Your Development Feedback Factory
Test Kitchen makes it easy for you to test cookbooks on a variety of platforms. With Test Kitchen, you can quickly create test nodes, converge them, and then run tests against them to verify their state. In this recorded webcast, Chef engineer Fletcher Nichol explains how to use Test Kitchen to write and maintain Chef cookbooks […]
Read MoreGet the Most From Chef: Analytics, Provisioning, and More
Earlier today, Chef Automation Engineer, Galen Emery, presented a webinar on how to “Get the Most From Chef” with some of our newest features. Chef Analytics: Do you have compliance or audit requirements? Get real-time visibility into what’s happening on the Chef server. Chef Provisioning: Spend less time on the tedious stuff. Describe, version, deploy, and […]
Read MoreJoint Webinar: DevSecOps – Taking a DevOps Approach to Security
Can Dev-”Sec”-Ops really exist? On Thursday, March 19 we’re partnering with Alert Logic to present a must-attend webinar for anyone wanting to debate how to adopt a continuous delivery model to security. More organizations are embracing DevOps and automation to realize compelling business benefits, such as more frequent feature releases, increased application stability, and more productive resource […]
Read MoreJoint Webinar: Automating Microsoft Azure with Chef
On March 19th we’re excited to bring together Microsoft and Chef to dig into the technical specifics outlined in our recent joint partnership announcement. Michael Ducy (@mfdii) and Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) of Chef will be joined by Kundana Palagiri (@KundanaP) of Microsoft to dig into what is means to use Chef as the DevOps platform with Microsoft Azure. They will go deep […]
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