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Chef Deepens Support for Google Cloud Platform
By James Casey
Building on the work we announced last fall to help you provision GCP resources with Chef cookbooks, and in honor of ChefConf 2018, Chef and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have been working together in several exciting ways: Extending coverage of InSpec for popular GCP resources Adding Habitat support for Google Container Registry Offering additional Chef […]
Read moreIntroducing Chef Workstation
By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of Chef Workstation, providing everything you need to get started with Chef with a simple one-click installation. Ad-Hoc Configuration Management with chef-run Chef Workstation comes with the new chef-run utility, which can be used to execute chef code on any remote system accessible via SSH or WinRM.
Read moreChef Automate 2 – A Modern Platform for Continuous Automation
We are delighted to announce the general availability of Chef Automate 2, a major upgrade to our continuous automation platform. Chef Automate 2 is the culmination of a nine month re-architecture initiative to improve performance, scale and responsiveness.
Read moreHappy Birthday Learn Chef Rally!
By Brian Turner
We’re excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Learn Chef Rally! It’s been a great year for learning Chef, and as part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing a limited edition badge at ChefConf next week. I’m not going to show it to you today, but imagine a magical feline celebrating, and you are getting close.
Read moreDeploy your applications to Azure using Habitat, Azure Container Registry and Azure Kubernetes Service
By James Casey
We’re excited to attend Microsoft’s Build 2018 conference in Seattle this week. Build is Microsoft’s premier developer event, where the most innovative minds in tech meet under one roof to get inspired, create tomorrow, and code the future.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef 14: A Friendlier, Easier Chef
By Julian Dunn
Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of Chef 14, the fastest and easiest to use Chef version yet. With nearly 30 new resources added since Chef 13, you can quickly get started using Chef for all of your infrastructure automation tasks immediately.
Read moreUsing AWS Systems Manager to Run Compliance Scans Using InSpec
Starting today, all AWS customers have the ability to perform compliance as code using InSpec through AWS EC2 Systems Manager (SSM). InSpec, an open-source testing framework from Chef, provides teams the ability to define and assess system state and status across the entire application lifecycle.
Read moreNew EMA report names Chef as a “Top 3” leader in Application Management and Deployment for DevOps
By Matt Carter
The new Enterprise Management Associates “Top 3” report for DevOps has just released, and Chef is excited to be named one of the chosen vendors in the application deployment and management for DevOps. The report and recognition are based on a survey of more than 300 DevOps practitioners conducted by EMA in 2017.
Read moreChefConf 2018 – Breakout Sessions Announced
ChefConf is the best opportunity you’ll have this year to connect with the Chef community, learn more from Chef and your peers about continuous automation, and earn a Chef Certification. Register now before early bird pricing ends on April, 20, 2018. This morning we published the agenda for this year’s ChefConf breakout sessions.
Read moreAnnouncing InSpec 2.0
By Julian Dunn
We are delighted to announce the availability of InSpec 2.0, the newest version of Chef’s open-source project for compliance automation. InSpec helps you express security and compliance requirements as code and incorporate it directly into the delivery process, eliminating ambiguity and manual processes to help you ship faster while remaining secure.
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