On June 4th with our partner 10th Magnitude, we are launching a technical webinar focused on how Chef is automating and accelerating Azure deployments.

The good folks over at CloudBees have been working with us over the past few months on a pretty cool project – enhancing Jenkins traceability. The enhancement gives developer and operations personnel the ability to use Jenkins for the first time to trace application code changes from development through to deployment, and into production.

As you may be aware, on 2014-05-14, there was an outage to the Berkshelf API service that Berkshelf v3+ uses to resolve dependencies from the Community site. We posted previously a postmortem of the incident. I wanted to take a moment and follow-up with the community where we’re at with the remediation items.

Looking back at last week’s OpenStack “Juno” Summit in Atlanta, there were a tremendous number of great conversations and presentations on OpenStack and Chef. With over 4,500 people there, it was exciting to hear about more and more production deployments of OpenStack with Chef (including the likes of Bloomberg and SAP).

This morning we delivered session #1 in our six part webinar series around learning Chef. We were overwhelmed by your interest, questions and engagement. Thank you to all who attended this morning. If you missed session #1, you still have the opportunity to catch up and join us for the final 5 installments.

Our friends at Serena Software host a monthly “DevOps Drive-In” series of webcasts and for May’s episode our own Mandi Walls will be holding a live Q&A at 9 am PT/Noon ET this Thursday, 5/22, on the five keys to building a successful DevOps culture.

A few months back, we got involved in an awesome organization, the Ada Developers Academy, which is an intensive software developer training school for women. One component of our participation is to provide an internship for an Ada Developers Academy student.

Yesterday api.berkshelf.com suffered periodic outages over about an eight hour window. Upon learning of the outage, we worked with the core berkshelf team to identify the cause; the Heroku dyno was hitting its memory quota.

Hello Chefs, We’re happy to announce the release of the Open Source Chef Server 11.1.0. The MVP for this release goes to Jesse Nelson and Philip Hutchins for their help in tracking down and helping others work around CHEF-3921. Many thanks to both of you. Obtaining the Release The release can be downloaded from http://www.getchef.