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Chef Habitat
Speeding up Habitat Iterations
I’m not a developer. I’m an ops — at least I was one. For several years, I’ve been teaching and consulting individuals and companies about DevOps and automation and how to change the way they think about, manage and build infrastructure, using Chef tooling.
Read moreChef at DevOpsDays Cape Town
By Eric Maxwell
I am delighted to have joined over 200 people from all over the world that flocked to Cape Town, South Africa for the first ever DevOpsDays in South Africa! DevOpsDays Cape Town was held at the Doubletree Hotel in the Woodstock neighborhood of Cape Town. The conference opened on November 7th, 2016.
Read moreWhy Habitat? – Plans and Packages, Part 2
By Michael Ducy
TL;DR: Wow, a 2000 word blog post. Habitat is a better way to package apps, and creates better containers. Walk through the Habitat tutorial here. In part 1 of this blog post series, we talked about how Habitat approaches the problem of Application Packaging.
Read moreChef at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016
DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference dedicated to helping individuals and companies navigate their DevOps journeys. Over 1300 DevOps practitioners (new and experienced alike) from organizations like Target, Disney, IBM and Walmart came together, November 13-15 in San Francisco, to share inspiring stories and cautionary tales.
Read moreWhy Habitat? – Plans and Packages, Part 1
By Michael Ducy
Habitat is Chef’s solution for application packaging and delivery: automation that travels with the application. This is the first in a multi-part series on the concepts behind Habitat. Application Automation is a big topic and relies upon multiple services from packaging, to service discovery, to runtime supervision, and deployment topologies.
Read moreHabitat at Rust Belt Rust
By Ian Henry
The Habitat team attended and sponsored 2/3 of the major conferences for the Rust Lang community this year. The most recent being the first annual Rust Belt Rust Conference in Pittsburgh, PA on October 27th and 28th! Some of you might notice when reading those dates: this was only two days after the Habitat Community Summit.
Read moreHow to run Habitat applications in Kubernetes
By JJ Asghar
Note: This blog post may be out of date. Check out a more recent article “Get Started with Habitat on Kubernetes” from our partners at Kinvolk. Habitat simplifies creating, managing, and running containers.
Read moreHabitat and Amazon Elastic Container Service
By Matt Ray
I was fortunate to present to the AWS Sydney North User Group on the topic “Build Better Containers for ECS with Habitat” (slides here). Since I was new to using Habitat and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) I documented my findings.
Read moreHabitat Community Summit 2016 Recap
By Ian Henry
The inaugural year of any freshly-minted FOSS community is full of new experiences. For the Habitat community, it’s no different: it’s certainly been a year of firsts. The Habitat Community Summit 2016 was a truly awesome and inspiring experience. The turn out and level of participation was absolutely fantastic for a first time event.
Read moreChef at DevOpsDays Detroit
In the US Mid-West and the Southern part of Ontario, Canada, we’re lucky enough to have several DevOps events spread out from spring to fall. October hails the end of the conference season here, mainly because travel becomes dreadful once it begins to snow!
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