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Delivering on Continuous Automation with Chef, InSpec, and Habitat
By Marc Holmes
Today we are delighted to be recognized in the Leaders category of new ‘The Forrester Wave™: Configuration Management Software for Infrastructure Automation, Q4 2017’ report. To take a detailed look at the report, you can grab a copy from this link – enjoy the read!
Read moreChef Community Summits – Seattle & New York
Last week the Chef Community hosted two summits in the US. Monday and Tuesday in Seattle, Thursday and Friday in New York. These Summits both included a day of open space discussions with topics proposed and selected by the participants and a day of hacking on various projects.
Read moreI did the tutorial, now what? Getting started with Chef on real infrastructure
By Morgan Drake
After taking Chef Essentials or spending time on learn.chef.io, you might still feel there’s a gulf between what you’ve learned and the details of automating your real-world infrastructure. In this article, I’ll outline some common starting points for writing your own Chef recipes, and point you to frequently-used tools and reference resources.
Read moreNew research digs into digital transformation objectives for high-velocity organizations
By Matt Carter
It’s not surprising that the vast majority of organizations are undertaking digital transformation projects to keep up with the pace of change in business. What is interesting is how the age of an organization impacts the priority and objective of the elements of their respective transformation.
Read moreTest Driven Cookbook Development in 2017
We are constantly asked to deliver our infrastructure faster at what seems like a compromise of its quality. Waiting until it’s time to deploy into production is not the moment to see if the cookbooks we have written will work.
Read moreConfiguration and Compliance as Code with VMware and Chef
By JJ Asghar
I recently returned from a week in Las Vegas at the VMworld 2017 conference. Besides the pleasure of speaking about Chef solutions with VMworld attendees, I had the honor of speaking with Alan Renouf of VMware about some new technology that VMware and Chef were bringing to market.
Read moreHow Niu balances speed and compliance for their digital transformation customers
By Matt Carter
Companies come to Niu Solutions to help them tackle difficult digital transformations while preserving their need for compliance. Learn how they applied detect and correct practices to tackle these challenges. The old engineers’ adage of “fast, safe and cheap, pick two” doesn’t apply in the cloud-native application world.
Read moreTake a test drive of Chef Automate on Microsoft Azure
By Bakh Inamov
Chef Automate on Microsoft Azure is a Continuous Automation platform that provides the tools for automating modern and legacy architectures: a release pipeline model for test, review, and deployment automation; visibility into what’s changing and why; and a comprehensive solution for compliance automation.
Read moreGDPR as part of your corporate compliance profile
By Joe Gardiner
With the changes in EU regulation that GDPR introduces, specifically relating to the processing of EU citizens’ personal data, organisations are facing fresh challenges in how they prove compliance. GDPR brings particular burdens with the ‘Privacy by Design’ mandate that requires data privacy be part of the system design process from day one.
Read moreAnnouncing new integrations with VMware on AWS
By JJ Asghar
We are pleased to announce the release of two new integrations with VMware on AWS! We have created both knife-vcenter and kitchen-vcenter to take advantage of VMware on AWS and help drive your developers’ stories. Leverage kitchen-vcenter to drive your cookbook development in AWS, and promote it to your Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).
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