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Portland was host to the second annual AutomaCon, the Infrastructure as Code Conference, September 27-29. It was a great event to share ideas about the future of infrastructure as code and continuous provisioning. The lineup of speakers represented some of the best in the industry.

Daniel Martushev

The Event Chef was a Gold sponsor of DevOpsDays Raleigh on October 6th and 7th at the McKimmon Center. This inaugural event was a wild success with a strong showing from members of the local Triangle DevOps Meetup group.

Fraser Pollock

The Event On October 7th, Chef participated in the first ever DevOpsDays Boise event. After attending several DevOps events around the country, Julie Gunderson of Taos wanted to bring the joy of DevOps to her home town of Boise.

Ben Rockwood

Last week we held our third annual Chef Community Summit in London. It was a sell-out event attended by 160 members of our community, both open source users and commercial customers. Our community in EMEA is a mix of folks from different industries and countries.

Mandi Walls

I’m delighted to announce that Elastic is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. Elastic’s cookbook named elasticsearch will install and help configure your elastic instance. Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises.

JJ Asghar

The Chef Certification Program is an exciting opportunity to deliver more value for your organization and take your career to the next level. Chef skills are in greater demand than ever.

John Fitzpatrick
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We have created an open Slack team for the Chef Community. Sign-up for the team at community-slack.chef.io. Moving forward, Slack will be the default tool for online communication within the community. Slack is great for both synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Nathen Harvey
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Despite our normal testing and processes, the 12.14.60 release of Chef Client included a number of regressions and escaped defects (you may also call them “bugs”).  One of the defects was the yum_repository resource which was added and released in chef-client version 12.14.60.

Nathen Harvey

A team of 14 Chef’s made the trek to balmy Atlanta along with 24,000+ customers and partners to participate in Microsoft Ignite, September 26th – 29th. It was a busy and fun-filled week participating in Microsoft’s largest event of the year. The keynotes and sessions were very informative.

Michele Todd