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Chef Habitat
Use Shield to backup and restore Redis
In a recent blog post I briefly discussed how to build, export and run a service packaged via a Habitat plan. In this post we will take a look at running Redis and backing it up via Shield.
Read moreRunning Habitat Applications on Kubernetes
By Michael Ducy
Containers continue to take the IT world by storm and container orchestration platforms are a major part of how you build and ship software in a modern way. Kubernetes is a great example of the growth of this segment, and has emerged as one of the leaders of this space.
Read morePackaging PHP in Habitat. A Tale Of Two Drupals.
By PaulAdams
(This post was originally published at Baggerspion) Early in my Habitat journey I packed a super-simple Python application that I had developed. It served no purpose other than to be packaged. Once I started to get my head around the fundamentals of packaging with Habitat, my mind turned to more useful things.
Read moreIntroducing Scaffolding and Multi-Service Supervisor in Habitat 0.20.0
By Michael Ducy
We recently released Habitat 0.20.0, which introduced two new features: Scaffolding and Multi-Service Supervisor. These features continue to make it easy to build, deploy, and manage your applications with Habitat. (For a more in-depth look at Multi-Service Supervisors you can read this blog post.
Read moreMulti-Service Supervision in Habitat
By Ian Henry
Those of you that have been following along with our regular Habitat release cadence might have noticed a couple of pretty big features dropped last week with version 0.20.0. In fact, one of those features was a breaking change to the way the supervisor functions.
Read moreGuest Post: Why Habitat?
This is a repost of a blog published by Michael Hedgpeth, a Software Architect at NCR Corporation. You can read the original post here. I started my career as a software engineer, and I always love creating a new application and seeing the magic of that application being deployed to production.
Read moreHello World!
By Ian Henry
As we mentioned during the weekly issue triage this week we’ve decided to move some of the project’s communication over to an “engineering blog”. Now, if you’re reading this then congratulations you found it! It’s basically going to function an awful lot like the currently existing blog on chef.io.
Read moreChef at KubeCon Europe
By Michael Ducy
Last week Chef was in Berlin for the 2017 edition of Kubecon EU. For me personally, this was my second CloudNativeCon/Kubecon, and it definitely lived up to my expectations. The attendees of CloudNativeCon/Kubecon seem to be some of the brightest conference attendees I’ve seen.
Read moreWhat’s Shipping?
Chef has been busy shipping a lot of new software lately. Here are some of the releases that have shipped in the last few weeks! Chef Server The Chef Server was recently updated to consolidate credentials that are stored on the system.
Read moreHands on with Habitat – West Coast
Chef has been on the road hosting workshops to help people take an applications-first approach to automation with Habitat. Our most recent stops on our Hands on With Habitat world tour were March 22 and 23 in San Francisco and San Jose. These workshops are aimed at anyone involved in building, deploying, or managing applications.
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