Today I’m thrilled to announce two new add-ons for Chef Server 12: Chef Server High Availability and Chef Server Replication. These two features are among the most-frequently requested product enhancements and allow customers to geographically distribute highly-available Chef server clusters while maintaining a single view for Chef content – cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags.

Ohai Chefs. Today’s release of Chef Client 11.16.0 marks the inclusion of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) support into Chef Client for Windows. DSC is a powerful configuration management platform built into PowerShell 4.0, and now you can use it with Chef! To try it out, just configure a system with Chef Client 11.16.

Today we’re pleased to announce the public availability of the first Chef Server 12 Release Candidate. This release brings the differentiating features of Enterprise Chef, namely multi-tenancy and role-based access control, into Open Source Chef.

Enterprise Chef 11.2.1 is a critical bug-fix release for customers who installed Enterprise Chef 11.2.0. It corrects a single defect experienced by customers who upgraded from earlier releases.

This was originally posted on coderanger.net. Chef RFCs are a way to propose and discuss changes to Chef and related projects. What is an RFC? Each RFC proposes a major change to Chef or another piece of software, or to the processes we use to develop them.

This was originally posted on stevenmurawski.com. SETTING THE TABLE First off, let me get on record – I LOVE DSC.  When I was at Stack Exchange, I rolled Desired State Configuration out during the Server 2012 R2 preview timeframe.  I coddled it through the move to RTM and then to General Availability.

We are pleased to announce the release of the Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 server and Chef Analytics 1.0.1. Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 What’s New oc-id Adds the Chef Identity Service. This enables Supermaket and Analytics authentication against the Enterprise Chef Server.

Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 includes oc-id, the OAuth2 service that powers id.opscode.com.   After upgrading to this release, Chef customers can run their own Supermarket service behind a firewall. oc-id setup: 1: Add the following setting to your /etc/opscode/private-chef.

Ohai Chefs, As of today version 0.2.1 of Chef Development Kit is available on our download page. Starting with this version, Chef Development Kit is now supported on **Mac OS X 10.8** in addition to 10.9.