Author:
Vikram Ghosh
VP of Business Development focussed on Cloud Partners and ISVs
Application Migration: End of Support, Beginning of Transformation
By Vikram Ghosh
What does end of support for an Operating System (such as Windows Server 2008 or RHEL 5) have to do with Digital Transformation? The speed of modern business necessitates a much faster time to market and higher quality applications. But your existing application estate will determine your modernization strategy.
Read moreA Deeper Dive into InSpec 3 and Google Cloud Platform
By Vikram Ghosh
The recently released InSpec 3 expands the developer ecosystem for compliance-as-code through plugins, integrations, and other new capabilities. This post will outline some of the ways that InSpec brings compliance-as-code to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Read moreAnnouncing Chef Support for Azure DevOps
By Vikram Ghosh
Today we are excited to support the launch of Azure DevOps (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server).
Read moreMicrosoft’s Jeremy Winter at ChefConf: Stagnation is more dangerous than change
By Vikram Ghosh
Do Change was the theme of ChefConf 2018, and Jeremy Winter, Partner Director – Azure Management and Security, personifies change throughout his career. During his 21 year career at Microsoft, Jeremy started as a developer, moved to running operations for Hotmail, and now runs program management for Azure Management and Security.
Read moreAWS’s Arun Gupta on the role of Chef in the world of containers
By Vikram Ghosh
Sporting a Chef’s hat at ChefConf 2018 in Chicago last month, Arun Gupta, Principal Open Source Strategist at Amazon Web Services, asked a question that a lot of you have been pondering; “Do I still need Chef in the world of containers?
Read moreAnnouncing Chef Support for Amazon Linux 2
By Vikram Ghosh
Today we are excited to announce Chef’s support for Amazon Linux 2. Chef Automate delivers the most comprehensive automation platform spanning tasks from infrastructure to compliance all the way to applications. We do this using Chef, enabling infrastructure automation; InSpec, enabling compliance automation; and Habitat, enabling application automation.
Read moreAccelerating time to productivity with Chef Automate using OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Vikram Ghosh
At ChefConf 2018 in Chicago last month Arun Gupta, AWS Principal Open Source Technologist, showcased how you can check for compliance of worker nodes in a Kubernetes cluster using OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). As part of the conference, AWS open sourced the code used; Give it a try! you can download the code here.
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