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Chef InSpec
Running 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.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – May 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world.
Read moreInSpec now available in Azure Cloud Shell
By Trevor Hess
This week brings us into another delightful ChefConf! We’ve made a lot of great announcements about enhancements and features that have been added across our suite of automation tools, and in Chef Automate itself with Automate 2.0. We also announced that Chef Software is now even more tightly integrated with the Microsoft Azure platform.
Read moreChef Deepens Support for Google Cloud Platform
By James Casey
Building on the work we announced last fall to help you provision GCP resources with Chef cookbooks, and in honor of ChefConf 2018, Chef and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have been working together in several exciting ways: Extending coverage of InSpec for popular GCP resources Adding Habitat support for Google Container Registry Offering additional Chef […]
Read moreIntroducing Chef Workstation
By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of Chef Workstation, providing everything you need to get started with Chef with a simple one-click installation. Ad-Hoc Configuration Management with chef-run Chef Workstation comes with the new chef-run utility, which can be used to execute chef code on any remote system accessible via SSH or WinRM.
Read moreChef DK 3.0 Released
By Nick Rycar
Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 3.0. With this release, you can detect and correct issues across more platforms faster than ever before with the addition of Chef 14 and InSpec 2.
Read moreRelativity’s Cloud Theory Becomes Reality with Azure, Chef, and 10th Magnitude
Bringing your companies platform to the cloud with the goal of developing software with speed requires a solid strategy and key partner integration. Relativity, an e-discovery platform for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects, realized together with Microsoft Azure, Chef Automate, and 10th Magnitude, this could be a reality.
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