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Chef Appoints Company’s First Chief Marketing Officer to Drive Continued Growth
By Lucas Welch
Chef Promotes Ken Cheney to Lead Global Go-to-Market Strategy at Key Inflection Point for Company Chef Bolsters Executive Team with New Product Engineering and Revenue Marketing Leaders SEATTLE – November 10, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today appointed Ken Cheney as the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
Read moreEnd-of-life announcement for Chef’s Bintray account
Chef will cease publishing to Bintray on December 30th, 2016. We will also delete all existing artifacts from https://bintray.com/chef on this date. Why are you doing this?
Read moreThe ChefConf 2017 Call for Presentations is Open!
By Lucas Welch
ChefConf 2017 takes place May 22-24, in beautiful Austin, TX, and we want you to present! The ChefConf 2017 call for presentations is now open. We’re excited to hear all the ways you’re using Chef to automate your infrastructure, compliance policies, and applications. Tell us about the successes and pitfalls you’ve encountered along the way.
Read moreChef Certification: What it is and how to do it
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.
Read moreChef Community Slack
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.
Read moreChef Client 12.14.60 – Escaped defects and corrective actions
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.
Read moreThe Future of DevOps with our CTO Adam Jacob
By Lucas Welch
Software is today’s competitive currency in every industry. And the most effective software delivery requires velocity and scale. DevOps is a working philosophy that helps companies change their culture and technology to drive performance in today’s digital economy. DevOps is reinventing how we run our businesses. But what does the future hold?
Read moreChef Wins Tech Impact Award from Seattle Business Magazine
By Lucas Welch
Seattle is now a technology epicenter — the growth of tech in Seattle brought roughly nine new jobs and seven new people every hour in 2015. You can see it in the cranes peppered throughout the city and you can feel it as a renewed energy is bringing the Pacific Northwest tech community to life.
Read moreRule the cloud with Chef and Windows Server 2016
By Lucas Welch
Chef has a long history of collaborating with Microsoft Corp. to help enterprise organizations migrate to the cloud and automate Microsoft Azure environments. We’re proud of all we’ve accomplished together and excited about what’s next. This week we have a large Chef team on the ground at Microsoft Ignite.
Read moreAnnouncing InSpec 1.0 – Compliance as Code
One year ago, we released InSpec, an open-source project for infrastructure and test automation that helps companies incorporate compliance into their deployment pipelines. Today, after 70 releases, and with a great development community to support us, we are proud to announce InSpec 1.0 and the launch of inspec.io.
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