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Chef Habitat
Breaking My Dependency Nightmares With Habitat
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By Simon Fisher
Overview In June this year Chef released an awesome new open-source project called Habitat.
Read moreChef at DevOpsDays Kansas City
The Event Kansas City, Missouri is known for Jazz and BBQ, but within the IT community, it’s increasingly becoming known for its DevOps community. With more than 600 members associated with the local DevOps Kansas City Meetup group, the inaugural DevOpsDays KCMO was ready to be kicked off.
Read moreThe blind adoption mistake: How to determine if containers are right for you
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By Julian Dunn
Making mistakes is part of life. But that doesn’t mean blindly making choices, in life, or in technology, without considering whether others have trodden the same path before. Every generation of technology — disruptive or not — brings with it a similar set of challenges as the previous generation, only in a different form.
Read moreChef at AutomaCon 2016
Portland was host to the second annual AutomaCon, the Infrastructure as Code Conference, September 27-29. It was a great event to share ideas about the future of infrastructure as code and continuous provisioning. The lineup of speakers represented some of the best in the industry.
Read moreChef at DevOpsDays Raleigh
The Event Chef was a Gold sponsor of DevOpsDays Raleigh on October 6th and 7th at the McKimmon Center. This inaugural event was a wild success with a strong showing from members of the local Triangle DevOps Meetup group.
Read moreChef at DevOpsDays Boise
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By Ben Rockwood
The Event On October 7th, Chef participated in the first ever DevOpsDays Boise event. After attending several DevOps events around the country, Julie Gunderson of Taos wanted to bring the joy of DevOps to her home town of Boise.
Read moreChef at Surge 2016
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By Robb Kidd
The Surge Conference, organized by OmniTI, gathers the best and brightest in web operations on the (US) east coast to share knowledge and experiences. Chef was a proud sponsor again this year and we provided Habitat training prior to the conference on workshop day. Habitat Workshop About 40 attendees gathered for our workshop, Introduction to Application Automation with Habitat (slides), led by Nathen Harvey.
Read moreHabitat at RustConf
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By Salim Alam
We were delighted to attend and sponsor the first annual RustConf in Portland, OR on September 10th. Friday before the conference, we held a Habitat Meetup where we talked about the technical details of Habitat development. It was fun meeting and talking with fellow Rustaceans for two days.
Read moreHabitat Hack PDX Wrap-Up
Last week, our friends at New Relic hosted a Habitat Hack event in Portland, OR for a dozen attendees from companies like Intel and Workday. Habitat is our latest open-source project that allows you to build your applications with the automation built-in.
Read moreDeploy a Java Web App on Tomcat 8 with Habitat
By Bill Meyer
Overview We recently released a new Habitat Package for deploying JavaEE Web application on Tomcat 8. The best way to learn how to take advantage of this new package is with an example, so that’s what we’ll do in this post. As part of this example, we’ll take the perspective of the Java application developer.
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