Author:
Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee
Chef Open Source Community: Year in Review
By Julian Dunn
Throughout 2018, we published monthly community updates to summarize valuable new features & and developments in Chef’s open source projects (Chef, Habitat and InSpec) as well as ecosystem tools & content like Test Kitchen, Foodcritic, Supermarket, Habitat core plans, and InSpec profiles & plugins.
Read moreChef Achieves CIS Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmarks
By Julian Dunn
Chef is pleased to announce that we have achieved official Center for Internet Security certification for Chef Automate and InSpec for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Server Levels 1 and 2) and Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmarks, Level 1.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef Automate integration with Google Cloud Security Command Center
By Julian Dunn
Digital security continues to be a critical area of focus for enterprises. This should not be a surprise given the continuous drumbeat of serious security breaches in the news as hackers seek to exploit databases full of valuable customer information.
Read moreNovember 2018 OSS Updates
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in November across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Many thanks to all of our contributors this month. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.7.17.
Read moreGiving Thanks to the Chef Community
By Julian Dunn
One of Chef’s strengths from day one has been in its incredible community. As we’ve expanded the number of open-source projects under our aegis in the last few years with InSpec and then Habitat, the Chef community has grown to encompass and embrace them.
Read moreEnd-of-Life Announcement for Chef Server for Linux on IBM Z and Linux on IBM Power Systems
By Julian Dunn
Today we are announcing the end-of-life date of Chef Server for Linux on IBM Z and Linux on IBM Power Systems to be May 1, 2019. Support for Chef Server on the x86_64 processor architecture is not affected by this announcement.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – October 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in October across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.6.47.
Read moreAnnouncing General Availability of Chef Workstation
By Julian Dunn
We are excited to announce that Chef Workstation, which we first released in beta at ChefConf 2018, is now generally available.
Read moreEnd-of-Life Announcement for DRBD-based HA support in Chef Server
By Julian Dunn
Today we are announcing the end-of-life date for support of the DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) High Availability feature of Chef Server to be March 31, 2019. The DRBD HA topology has been deprecated for over two years, since the release of Chef HA (also known as Chef Backend) and Chef Server 12.9.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – September 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in September across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.5.33, which includes two new resources: windows_workgroup, which allows you to modify the system’s Windows workgroup, and locale, which sets the system locale.
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