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Dan DeLeo
Policyfiles: A Guided Tour
By Dan DeLeo
If you watched the ChefConf keynote, attended last years’ community summits, or follow our open source mailing lists, you’ve probably heard about Policyfiles.
Read moreChefDK 0.6.0 Released!
By Dan DeLeo
Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.6.0, which you can find on our downloads page. This release has three changes from ChefDK 0.5.1: New chef provision command. Berkshelf is upgraded to 3.2.4 Kitchen Vagrant is upgraded to 0.18.
Read moreChef Server 12.0.7 Released
By Dan DeLeo
Hello Chefs, I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.0.7 is now available. Aside from some behind-the-scenes build improvements, it has two major updates over the previous release: The minimum set of Policyfile endpoints necessary to upload a policy and run Chef Client is now implemented (though see the caveats below).
Read moreRuby 1.9.3 EOL and Chef 12
By Dan DeLeo
Hi Chefs, We've decided not to support Ruby 1.9.3 in the upcoming Chef 12.0 release, in accordance with the support policy we approved in Chef RFC 015 and made explicit here. Before explaining the rationale, I'd like to be clear that Chef 12 Omnibus packages will ship with Ruby 2.1 for Unix-like systems and 2.
Read moreChefDK 0.3.2 Released!
By Dan DeLeo
Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.3.2. This release fixes a handful of issues with the SSL configuration in ChefDK. Most importantly, we've rolled back the version of the CA Certificate bundle included in ChefDK.
Read moreChefDK 0.3.0 Released! Introducing Policyfiles
By Dan DeLeo
We’re excited to announce that ChefDK 0.3.0 is now released. You can get it from our download page now.Today’s release contains a preview release of the new Policyfile feature. This is a significant milestone on our journey to improve the way you develop and distribute Chef code to manage your infrastructure.
Read moreChefDK for Windows: Progress Update
By Dan DeLeo
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 moreChefDK 0.1.0 Released
By Dan DeLeo
Hello Chefs, We’ve released ChefDK 0.1.0, a minor update to add some small features and fix bugs based on the feedback you’ve given us since our first release at ChefConf. We’ve also updated Berkshelf and Test Kitchen. You can find packages on our downloads page. Berkshelf Updates Berkshelf is updated to 3.1.1.
Read moreSSL Certificate Validation in Chef
By Dan DeLeo
SSL and Chef As Chef has grown up, we've found that we've needed to revisit some decisions we made when Chef was an unruly upstart open source project. One such decision is how Chef handles HTTPS connections by default. Currently, Chef defaults to not verifying certificates when it makes HTTPS connections.
Read moreChef 10.28.0 Released
By Dan DeLeo
Hello Chefs, we’re happy to announce the release of Chef 10.28.0 today. This minor release backports a few features from Chef 11.6 and includes some important bug fixes as well.
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