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Chef Habitat
InSpec, Habitat, and Continuous Compliance
By Adam Leff
In my last post, I talked about some of the benefits of containers, how containers can complicate compliance requirements, and how InSpec can help. InSpec provides a human-readable infrastructure and compliance testing language that allows you to scan your hosts, VMs, and containers to ensure your fleet’s compliance. But let’s take this one step further.
Read moreWhat’s Cooking: Week of 3/27-3/31
By Jamie Bright
We’re whipping up awesome all over the globe next week. Find us at an event near you and connect with our friendly community of wickedly smart practitioners who want to help you succeed with Chef.
Read moreChef at SCaLE15x
The 15th annual SCaLE (Southern California Area Linux Expo) was held March 2-5, 2017 at the Pasadena Convention Center. This 4-day gathering of Linux enthusiasts was filled with 200+ speakers and presentations, 90+ exhibits and lots of special events.
Read moreSimplifying Container Management with Habitat
By Michael Ducy
Containers provide a delightful development experience. It’s easy to download a container image and get started writing code. But it’s a different story when you have to run containers in production at scale. That’s when all the hidden complexities become apparent and the real challenges begin.
Read moreHabitat For Packaging Python Flask Web Services
This is a guest post by our friend Tom McLaughlin, Engineering Advocate at Threat Stack. It was first published on the Threat Stack blog on February 22, 2017. One of the challenges of building open source tools is figuring out how to package and distribute them. This is particularly true with web services.
Read moreWhat Can You Do With Habitat Today?
What if you could build software once and run it (almost) anywhere? Whether on a bare metal server, a virtual machine, or in a container? What if you could move a legacy application into the cloud without rewriting it?
Read moreChef and Habitat at Container World 2017
By Michael Ducy
Last week, Chef sponsored and attended Container World in Santa Clara, CA . This was an unofficial stop on the ongoing Hands on Habitat World Tour, and we held a well attended workshop on getting started with Habitat and containers.
Read moreChef at Config Management Camp
By Tim Smithh
Config Management Camp is a conference that is 100% dedicated to configuration management. The conference took place February 6th and 7th at the SchoonMeersen Campus of the University College Gent. The event brought together config management users from all over Europe, including Chef staff from the US who gave talks on both Habitat and Chef.
Read moreChef at Microsoft Ignite in Australia
By Michele Todd
Team Chef in Australia Chef had our first presence at Microsoft Ignite Australia in the Gold Coast February 14-17 and it was truly amazing! Wendy Smith, Nell Shamrell, and I made the long journey down under from our Seattle headquarters to join our team in Australia: Paul Took and Matt Ray.
Read moreHabitat World Tour: Gent, Berlin, Amsterdam
By Ian Henry
The beginning of February kicked off the first leg of our Hands-on With Habitat World Tour and I must say, what an experience it was. A handful of Chef’s spent time visiting FOSDEM, speaking at CfgMgmtCamp, and teaching people how to get started with Habitat at workshops in Gent, Berlin, and Amsterdam!
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