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Chef Habitat
Delivering on Continuous Automation with Chef, InSpec, and Habitat
By Marc Holmes
Today we are delighted to be recognized in the Leaders category of new ‘The Forrester Wave™: Configuration Management Software for Infrastructure Automation, Q4 2017’ report. To take a detailed look at the report, you can grab a copy from this link – enjoy the read!
Read moreRunning Habitat Apps on Cloud Foundry
Editors note: One thing that we seek to emphasize with Habitat is choice. Choose your language scaffolding, package your app, and then choose your platform for deployment. In order to provide our users with as many options as possible, we partner with experts on various platforms such as Stark & Wayne for Cloud Foundry support.
Read moreNode.js Scaffolding and Habitat Builder
One of the most useful features of Habitat is Scaffolding – these allow you to package your application with Habitat with very minimal code. They enable you to very rapidly (within minutes) package an application and export it to whatever format you need.
Read moreChef Community Summits – Seattle & New York
Last week the Chef Community hosted two summits in the US. Monday and Tuesday in Seattle, Thursday and Friday in New York. These Summits both included a day of open space discussions with topics proposed and selected by the participants and a day of hacking on various projects.
Read moreHabitat Builder for the People!
By Jamie Winsor
Today, the Habitat team is thrilled to announce the availability of Habitat Builder for all projects and origins. Habitat enables you to build, deploy, and manage your application, and automate the relationship between those lifecycle events to keep your application healthy, secure, and up to date. To get started with Habitat, you write a plan.
Read moreNew research digs into digital transformation objectives for high-velocity organizations
By Matt Carter
It’s not surprising that the vast majority of organizations are undertaking digital transformation projects to keep up with the pace of change in business. What is interesting is how the age of an organization impacts the priority and objective of the elements of their respective transformation.
Read moreHabitat Integration for VSTS in the Visual Studio Marketplace
We are pleased to announce the first release of Habitat Integration for Visual Studio Team Services, released to the Visual Studio Marketplace. This extension brings the power and portability of Habitat to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). It contains a number of tasks that allow developers to package and release / export applications using Habitat.
Read moreA journey with Habitat on Amazon ECS, part 2
In the first part of this series we got the Chef Automate Pilot container stack up and running on ECS. Now let’s make it survive termination of any container or EC2 instance without losing data by adding AWS RDS, EFS and Elasticsearch.
Read moreA journey with Habitat on Amazon ECS, part 1
Amazon’s ECS (EC2 Container Service) provides a compelling offering to developers and operators who are already very comfortable with AWS and its tooling. In this series of posts I explore deployment strategies for Containerized applications built using Habitat on ECS. The mission: Taking an application stack from “works on my laptop” to “works in production”.
Read moreApplication Packaging for Modern 12 Factor Applications
By Michael Ducy
One of the defining characteristics of Habitat is the packaging technology. Packaging is in no way a new concept. Operating System vendors have solved this problem for sometime using tools like RPM, Debian Packages, Yum, Apt, etc.
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