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Chef Management Console Released to Hosted Enterprise Chef
Chef Manage has now replaced the original management console in Hosted Enterprise Chef! It represents a complete reworking of the online Chef experience, bring more usability, power, and functionality to manage your infrastructure from the browser than ever before.
DevOps for developers w/Chef [Part V] (Guest Blog Series)
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part Five details setting up infrastructure with Chef. Setting up infrastructures, with Chef and friends Setup and maintenance of infrastructure were automated even before the rise of Agile software development and the DevOps movement.
Chef in the Clouds Part I: AWS @ #ChefConf
As many of you know, AWS uses Chef as the default automation engine for its application management solution AWS Opsworks. We think that’s very cool and nice validation for Chef. Chef is also the exclusive DevOps solution for Amazon’s Activate program.
#ChefConf Talk Spotlight: “Pursuing New Ideas in a Large Enterprise” by Target’s Jeff Einhorn
The steady march to #ChefConf (April 15-17 in San Francisco) continues with another spotlight on one of the many tremendous presentations that will go down at our third annual shindig.
Release Candidates: Chef Client 11.12.0 & 10.32.0
Ohai chefs, Today we’ve shipped release candidates for Chef Client 11.12.0 & 10.32.0. These two releases also include release candidates for ohai & mixlib-shellout. Chef Client 11.12.0 RC1 includes: ohai 7.0.0 RC2 mixlib-shellout 1.4.0 RC1 Chef Client 10.32.0 RC1 includes: ohai 6.22.0.rc.
DevOps for developers w/Chef [Part IV] (Guest Blog Series)
We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part Four covers DevOps misunderstandings. Some DevOps misunderstandings There are some common misunderstandings about DevOps. Some people think DevOps strives for new organizational units or teams (“another silo will solve it”). That’s not true.
Party on (and on and on) @ #ChefConf!
We’ve already lined up a tremendous group of speakers and trainings for #ChefConf 2014 in San Francisco, April 15-17, and we’re looking forward to seeing the whole Chef Community out in force. Of course, keynotes, sessions, trainings, and such are all gravy, but what’s happening once the sun goes down?
Breaking Changes: Xcode 5.1 (osx)
Ohai Chefs, We have a number of OSX users in the community (myself included) and some of you may have recently noticed issues extending Chef functionality by installing ruby gems like berkshelf, chefspec, and foodcritic which require building native extensions.
#ChefConf Talk Spotlight: “Chef @ Scale – Patterns for Success” from Yahoo
The countdown to #ChefConf continues as we spotlight the many Awesome Chefs presenting at the show, which takes place April 15-17 in San Francisco. Today we’re highlighting a presentation that focuses on something we hear a lot in association with Chef – scale.