Author:
Jamie Bright
Former Chef employee
Participate in the Chef 2017 Survey
By Jamie Bright
You’re invited to participate in the Chef 2017 Survey. As a user of Chef, you have a unique view of trends and factors of technology initiatives that lead to digital transformation, and we value your opinion.
Read moreWebinars that rocked in 2016
By Jamie Bright
Chef webinars are a great way to learn about new products, integrations, and build your skills as a Chef practitioner. In 2016, we presented more than 30 live webinars to thousands of attendees across the globe.
Read moreTop 10 Most Viewed Blogs of 2016
By Jamie Bright
In 2016, we published more than 200 blog posts, highlighting major releases and announcements, partnerships and integrations, skill-building and how to articles, and more. Here are the top ten most viewed posts of 2016.
Read moreBreaking Technology Silos at the NFL with Chef
By Jamie Bright
Today kicks off the 97th season of the National Football League (NFL). In that spirit, we’d like to give a shout out to our friend Sean Walberg who works on the infrastructure team there. At this year’s ChefConf, Sean told the story of breaking technology silos at the NFL with Chef.
Read moreSpice Up Your Chef Usage on AWS
By Jamie Bright
Looking for ways to spice up your Chef usage on AWS? In this recored session from ChefConf 2016, Josh Campbell, a partner solutions architect at AWS, shows you how to leverage services like AWS Lambda, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon CloudWatch Events, and Amazon EC2 Run Command with Chef.
Read moreBuilding Modern Cloud Applications on Azure
By Jamie Bright
At ChefConf 2016, Boris Scholl, Principal PM for Azure, presented, “Building Modern Cloud Applications on Azure.” Watch the recorded session below to hear why Microsoft is betting on open source in the cloud, how they enable, integrate, release and contribute to it, and why it’s important for your DevOps practices, wherever you are in your journey.
Read more[Watch] Chef Automate: Scale your use of automation
By Jamie Bright
What is Chef Automate? Chef Automate is our new approach to scaling up the use of automation across your organization. It builds on our open-source projects: Chef for infrastructure and cloud automation, InSpec for compliance automation, and the newly released Habitat for application automation.
Read moreWatch: Understanding the Chef Server
By Jamie Bright
On June 8th, Irving Popovetsky, Principal Customer Architect and Stephen Delano, Principal Engineer, presented a live webinar, “Understanding the Chef Server.” Watch the recording below for an overview of how it’s designed, how it’s packaged, and general advice on operating the Chef server at scale (monitoring, troubleshooting, etc).
Read moreChefConf Session Spotlight – Breaking Technology Silos with Chef
By Jamie Bright
Next up in our ChefConf Session Spotlight series, we’d like to draw your attention to Sean Walberg. Sean is a DevOps practitioner with the National Football League’s digital media division, which encompasses all of the league’s websites and streaming. Over the past two-plus years he’s used Chef to help automate website operations and reduce downtime.
Read moreDevOps and Chef at Hearst Business Media
By Jamie Bright
Hearst Business Media is a global technology leader delivering information, insights, analytics, and workflow solutions to meet worldwide needs in the finance, healthcare and transportation markets. Chef did a Q&A session with Hearst’s Vice President of DevOps, Pauly Comtois.
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