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DevOps is permeating the enterprise. And as we at Chef have often espoused, it’s both a technical and professional movement. At the helm of the professional side are careers – DevOps changes career paths. It alters job functions. While DevOps has been cited as one of the most lucrative technical professions – Dice.

Lucas Welch
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We want to make you aware of two changes that will affect Chef products going forward: All Chef products will be making their license file and the license files of all included software easier to find.

Mark Mzyk
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On April 14th, I presented a live webinar on Automating Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) with Chef. Automating PowerShell DSC with Chef makes it safer and easier to manage hundreds or thousands of servers. Watch the recording below to learn how you can bring order to chaotic environments by using Chef and DSC together.

Steven Murawski
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Our friends at AWS published a great blog this week about working with Chef, Lambda and CloudWatch. We’re delighted to share Josh’s best practices around leveraging AWS Services like Lambda and CloudWatch to get the most out of Chef on AWS. Originally posted here: https://aws.amazon.

Justin Fenton
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Chef Compliance 1.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a major release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance.  We enhanced capabilities for Chef Compliance to enable automated management of compliance policies that are based on the broadly used Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.

Alex Pop
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On March 23rd, I presented a live webinar on Writing Great Unit Tests. Watch the recording below to hear me explain how to write unit tests and how they apply to the domain of cookbook development. You’ll see me demonstrate how to build cookbooks by using a test-driven approach.

Franklin Webber
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We’re excited to attend Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference in San Francisco this week. Microsoft is a great partner to Chef and we’re always looking for opportunities to show off how well our technologies work together. At Build, we’re announcing a new integration that will be released soon. Microsoft has an IT management solution called Operations Management Suite (OMS).

Justin Fenton
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Today we released a refresh to our Chef Delivery tutorial on Learn Chef. The refresh features a simpler, automated setup procedure and greater emphasis on building the skills you need to get started with Chef Delivery. The automated setup, which runs on AWS, brings up a fully-functional Chef Delivery installation in minutes.

Thomas Petchel
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The volume of posts on our blog has continued to increase as our company and community have grown. While all of the content has been awesome, we’ve received many requests for a dedicated channel about security and release announcements.