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Chef Server HA Beta: The best way to run Chef Server
Signups are now open for the Chef Server HA beta program! Chef Server HA 2.0 is a completely new high availability (HA) architecture designed for mission-critical performance and reliability. During the open-invite beta period, running from now until July 1st, you’ll be able to try out this new feature and provide feedback. Chef Server HA 2.
Read morePackageCloud Repositories Disabled, Please Migrate to packages.chef.io
As previously announced we’ve disabled our PackageCloud APT/YUM repositories for the current and stable release channels effective today. Please migrate to the equivalent packages.chef.io repository as documented on docs.chef.io. The latest versions of the apt-chef or yum-chef cookbooks will automate this repo configuration for you.
Read moreChanges to How Chef Products Handle Licenses
By Mark Mzyk
We want to make you aware of two changes that will affect Chef products going forward: All Chef products will be making their license file and the license files of all included software easier to find.
Read moreChef Delivery Tutorial on Learn Chef
Today we released a refresh to our Chef Delivery tutorial on Learn Chef. The refresh features a simpler, automated setup procedure and greater emphasis on building the skills you need to get started with Chef Delivery. The automated setup, which runs on AWS, brings up a fully-functional Chef Delivery installation in minutes.
Read moreMoving release and security announcements to Discourse
The volume of posts on our blog has continued to increase as our company and community have grown. While all of the content has been awesome, we’ve received many requests for a dedicated channel about security and release announcements.
Read moreWe’ve moved our software distribution to packages.chef.io
Ohai Chefs! We’re excited to announce that we’ve moved all of Chef Software Inc.’s public distribution services to packages.chef.io. Under the hood packages.chef.io leverages Bintray, the software distribution platform created by JFrog. We’ve made this transition to provide a more seamless, better performing experience to our users.
Read moreFIPS Support Now Generally Available in Chef Client 12.8
By Julian Dunn
We recently announced the general availability of Chef Client 12.8 that includes support for running in a FIPS 140-2-compliant mode. FIPS, the Federal Information Processing Standard, is primarily used within the United States Federal Government as a standard for information systems security.
Read moreChef Makes DevOps Workflow Faster and Safer for Enterprises Amid Rapid Business Growth
By Lucas Welch
New Chef Delivery Product Enhancements Come as Company’s Annual Recurring Revenue Grows 94 Percent Year-over-Year in 2015 and Chef Nears 1,000 Customers SEATTLE – March 10, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today introduced Dependency Management, a new feature of its Chef Delivery product, that enables faster and safer developer collaboration by […]
Read moreChef and OpenSSL Security Advisory 1 March 2016
By Julian Dunn
On March 1, 2016, the OpenSSL team released a new high severity security advisory. Simultaneously, the OpenSSL team also made available new versions of the OpenSSL code containing fixes for the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.
Read moreChef Board of Governance Meeting
Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 marked the first meeting of the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) in San Francisco. In attendance were 11 of the members of the board, as well as Nathen Harvey and Thom May from Chef Software to observe and advise as the leads of the community teams at Chef Software.
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