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Q&A with the Sous Chefs
By Julian Dunn
Chef sat down with Dan Webb of the Sous Chefs organization recently for a Q&A session. Dan is a winner of a 2018 Awesome Community Chef award for all of his contributions and mentorship to the Chef community. (These answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.) Who are the Sous Chefs?
Read moreChef at Google Next 2018
By James Casey
Chef will be at the Google Next 2018 conference in San Francisco, California, July 24-26. Google Next is where developers come together to share challenges, solutions, 10x ideas, and game-changing technologies. Google is a great partner of Chef and we’re always excited for opportunities to show how our technologies work well together.
Read moreMicrosoft’s Jeremy Winter at ChefConf: Stagnation is more dangerous than change
By Vikram Ghosh
Do Change was the theme of ChefConf 2018, and Jeremy Winter, Partner Director – Azure Management and Security, personifies change throughout his career. During his 21 year career at Microsoft, Jeremy started as a developer, moved to running operations for Hotmail, and now runs program management for Azure Management and Security.
Read moreHarnessing the Cloud with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
For the past 8 years, Stephen Figgins, System Administrator for University of Kansas Agile Technology Solutions, has been a Chef practitioner and valued member of the vibrant Chef community. At ChefConf 2018, Stephen had a conversation on the main stage with Nathan Harvey, our VP of Community Development.
Read moreCSG International and How DevOps Delivers Results
By Sam Danyal
Six years ago, CSG International, the company that provides backend SaaS support to major telecom companies, started their DevOps transformation journey to modernize how they develop and run software. And for the past six years, CSG has made significant strides in transforming to a high-performing IT organization.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – June 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in June across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.2.0, the latest and greatest in the Chef 14 series.
Read moreRunning Chef and InSpec with Habitat – How We Made that Demo
By John Snow
Editor’s Note: ChefConf 2018 ‘How We Did It’ Series Welcome to part two of our How We Did It series based on demos from the ChefConf 2018 Product Vision & Announcements keynote presentation. In case you missed it, review part one: Habitat and Kubernetes.
Read moreInSpec GCP Deep Dive
As recently announced Chef has deepened support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by adding InSpec integration. Furthermore, the InSpec GCP resource pack is freely available here – suggestions (and contributions) welcome! Before looking at InSpec GCP let’s ensure we have the necessary prerequisites in place.
Read moreChefConf 2018 Keynote Video: Product Vision & Announcements
By Julian Dunn
It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year.
Read moreUnderstanding Singular and Plural InSpec resources
InSpec enables you to automate compliance by expressing the expected state of many things. A common need is to find a group of things, then examine them in detail. If you are using the cloud, you know that cloud security is paramount, but difficult to keep enforced.
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