The new Enterprise Management Associates “Top 3” report for DevOps has just released, and Chef is excited to be named one of the chosen vendors in the application deployment and management for DevOps. The report and recognition are based on a survey of more than 300 DevOps practitioners conducted by EMA in 2017.

ChefConf is the best opportunity you’ll have this year to connect with the Chef community, learn more from Chef and your peers about continuous automation, and earn a Chef Certification. Register now before early bird pricing ends on April, 20, 2018. This morning we published the agenda for this year’s ChefConf breakout sessions.

Here is this month’s roundup of news from Chef’s open source projects: Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and other miscellaneous tools. Chef The Chef Client team is busy preparing for the release of Chef 14 in April and trying to squeeze in as many features before we start creating release candidates.

A group of Habitat core team members is at Helm Summit in beautiful (but surprisingly frosty) Portland this week, to learn more about how Helm contributors are continuing to automate application deployment and management to Kubernetes clusters.

ChefConf 2018 will be our 7th annual event. This year we’ll be in Chicago in May, celebrating all the great accomplishments of the Chef community with deep dish pizza. And an amazing lineup of talks and events!

As of Habitat 0.54.0, you can export your Habitat built applications into Helm! Helm is an open source package manager for Kubernetes that is maintained by the CNCF.

InSpec 2 introduces the ability to test cloud resources for compliance in addition to the system and application-level resources that previously appeared in InSpec 1. In this tutorial, we’ll use InSpec to write a very simple control to check attributes on a virtual machine in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

We are delighted to announce the availability of InSpec 2.0, the newest version of Chef’s open-source project for compliance automation. InSpec helps you express security and compliance requirements as code and incorporate it directly into the delivery process, eliminating ambiguity and manual processes to help you ship faster while remaining secure.

On Friday, February 9, Chef held our first Community Summit in Berlin at the Betahaus coworking space. Berlin has a thriving startup culture and is home to some of our InSpec teammates as well as a number of #cheffriends at AWS who work on OpsWorks for Chef Automate.