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Prepare for Chef Certification with Linux Academy
By Brian Turner
The Chef training team is excited to announce that Linux Academy is now offering training to support Chef practitioners interested in becoming a Certified Chef Developer. Linux Academy provides high-quality, in-depth training that is readily available online. This allows you to take a course whenever it is convenient for you.
Read moreWhy you should attend ChefConf 2017
There are lots of tech conferences. Each year more are born, grow, and clamor for your time, money, and attention. When we started ChefConf six years ago, we knew two things for sure — we wanted it to embody the best of our community, and because of that, it would have to be different.
Read moreVMware vRA 7.0+ and Chef
By JJ Asghar
We’re happy to announce that Chef can now drive VMware’s vRA 7.0+ automation suite. We’ve released 2.0.0 versions of both knife-vrealize and kitchen-vra along with a 1.0.0 version of chef-provisioning-vra.
Read moreRule the cloud with Chef Automate and AWS
Last week at re:Invent, Amazon Web Services CTO, Werner Vogels unveiled AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate during his keynote. We here at Chef are super excited and the initial reception has been amazing! Previously, I covered what’s inside the new offering from a technical perspective.
Read moreAssess and remediate your Windows Servers with Chef
By Joe Gardiner
I’m pleased to announce two new Chef assets that enable you to assess and remediate your Windows 2012 R2 Servers using the compliance feature of Chef Automate. They are both basic, initial examples, but demonstrate how you can use a compliance profile in conjunction with a cookbook to apply best practice server hardening.
Read moreArista and the Chef Partner Cookbook Program
By JJ Asghar
I’d like to announce that Arista is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the EOS Cookbook which manages the configuration of EOS network devices. Arista Networks was founded to pioneer and deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments.
Read moreChef Automate Now Available as Fully Managed Service on AWS
By Lucas Welch
“AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate” Brings Full Chef Platform to AWS Customers for Fast and Secure Management of Cloud and On-Premises Infrastructure at Any Scale LAS VEGAS – December 1, 2016 – Today at AWS re:Invent 2016, Chef announced that the full capabilities of Chef’s commercial platform have been integrated into a new managed service […]
Read moreInside the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service
We’re excited about this morning’s announcement at AWS re:Invent unveiling the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service. This service helps anyone get started quickly with Chef Automate in a low-risk low-friction way with all the benefits you’d expect from any native AWS service.
Read moreVMware vRealize Automation 7.0+ and Chef
By JJ Asghar
I’m pleased to announce two Chef vRA 7.0+ Blueprints for both Windows and Linux from Chef. They are basic, initial integrations, and have an example that demonstrates how to bootstrap the chef-client into a cataloged virtual machine.
Read moreAnnouncing the release of ChefDK 1.0
By Tom Duffield
We’re happy to announce the release of ChefDK 1.0.3! The decision to promote ChefDK to 1.0 was made with input from the community at the 2016 Chef Community Summit in Seattle – a reflection of ChefDK’s maturity and stability. Release Highlights Foodcritic Foodcritic constraint updated to require v8.0 or greater.
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