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Nick Rycar
Nick is a Technical Product Marketing Manager working out of Chef HQ in Seattle. When he's not busy preparing product demos, he's torturing his colleagues with terrible puns and needlessly esoteric pop-culture trivia. Mostly he's just another confused New York transplant in the Pacific Northwest.
Chef Software is the First CIS Partner Certified on AWS, Azure, and GCP
By Nick Rycar
Chef is excited to announce that we have achieved official Center for Internet Security certification on the Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmarks (level 1 & level 2).
Read moreSecuring Access in Cloud Environments with Saviynt and Chef
By Nick Rycar
The days where we wondered whether or not our organization would choose to migrate workloads to the cloud are long behind us. Today the question is not if we’ll move these workloads, but how many, and how quickly we can do so.
Read moreDetect Kubernetes Vulnerabilities with InSpec
By Nick Rycar
Earlier this week a critical security vulnerability was uncovered in the Kubernetes API server. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-1002105, uncovers an attack vector that would allow an unprivileged or unauthenticated user to escalate their privileges and run arbitrary commands with cluster-admin level access.
Read morePreparing for Audits with InSpec
By Nick Rycar
Preparing for a compliance audit can be an overwhelming process.
Read moreAnnouncing InSpec 3.0
By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of InSpec 3.0! Since the last major revision of InSpec in February, InSpec has been downloaded 49270 times, we’ve merged more than 330 pull requests from 85 contributors, and added dozens of new resources. The 3.0 release includes a ton of bug fixes, usability improvements, and additional platform support.
Read moreVideo Series: Intro to AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
This week we’re pleased to release a new video series, Intro to AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate.
Read moreContinuous Compliance for Painless Ongoing Audits
By Nick Rycar
Audits are stressful. If your organization is subject to regulatory compliance rules, chances are you’ve experienced firsthand how time-consuming and painful they can be.
Read moreMigrating Legacy Windows Applications with Habitat
By Nick Rycar
Two years ago, Chef launched Habitat as a way to enable application teams to build, deploy, and manage any application in any environment.
Read moreAutomating Cloud Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
Chef, InSpec, and Habitat provide workflows for automating everything you manage, from infrastructure configuration to security auditing to application releases.
Read moreIntroducing Chef Workstation
By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of Chef Workstation, providing everything you need to get started with Chef with a simple one-click installation. Ad-Hoc Configuration Management with chef-run Chef Workstation comes with the new chef-run utility, which can be used to execute chef code on any remote system accessible via SSH or WinRM.
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