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Chef is one of the most popular tools for DevOps awesomeness, and you won’t believe what’s one of the biggest causes of chef-server unavailability: disk full Yep, you read that right. In 2017, there’s still a LOT of people who don’t have all their systems being carefully monitored by a trustworthy application.

Thiago Vinhas
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We are pleased to announce that the latest release of Habitat – v0.25.0 – brings Habitat to Windows! This functionality has been evolving steadily for the last several months and has been available in various pieces along the way. Perhaps you have seen my demo showing where we were back in March. Well with v0.25.

Matt Wrock

Engineers sometimes use the phrase DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself. It’s commonly used when writing or reviewing code that is repetitive. The usual solution is to take the repetitious code and turn it into something that can be reused. It’s really easy to fall into the “repeat yourself” trap, even with a tool like InSpec.

Adam Leff

Chef Automate is officially one year old as of this latest release (1.5.46). Happy birthday, Chef Automate! There are a number of things to highlight this release. Compliance Views Better insight of compliance state and profile data is now available by default in the Chef Automate GUI.

George Miranda

Chef is excited to announce a new Learn Chef Rally module that introduces you to Chef Automate. Try the Chef Automate Pilot now or read on to learn what it’s all about.

Thomas Petchel

We’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 2.0. This release updates many of the tools included in Chef DK, which provides more features and functionality, and adds support for partner integrations. Chef DK 2.0 contains Chef Client 13.2, and is the best way to develop, validate, and deploy Chef cookbooks.

Thom May

Chef is proud to announce that last week it was named as Washington’s 10th Best Company* to work for according to Seattle Business Magazine. This is in addition to being named the #22 best Small-Medium sized company to work for in 2017 by Glassdoor. #amazing! Awards are great. We love awards here at Chef!

Rachel Cougan

I am excited to see that so many of you have checked out the new Learn Chef Rally site – https://learn.chef.io. There is a lot of Chef learning available to you and we want to encourage you to continue to go through tracks and modules.

Brian Turner

Happy Birthday, Habitat! Last night marked Habitat’s first birthday party, celebrated with the project’s core team, which flew from their various distributed locations, local community members, and friends of the project.

Tasha Drew