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Computing DevOps Summit and Awards
By Simon Fisher
On 22nd March I had the pleasure along with a few other Chefs of being invited to the Computing DevOps Excellence Awards hosted at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel in London.
Read moreInSpec, Habitat, and Continuous Compliance
By Adam Leff
In my last post, I talked about some of the benefits of containers, how containers can complicate compliance requirements, and how InSpec can help. InSpec provides a human-readable infrastructure and compliance testing language that allows you to scan your hosts, VMs, and containers to ensure your fleet’s compliance. But let’s take this one step further.
Read moreWhat’s Cooking: Week of 3/27-3/31
By Jamie Bright
We’re whipping up awesome all over the globe next week. Find us at an event near you and connect with our friendly community of wickedly smart practitioners who want to help you succeed with Chef.
Read moreChef at SCaLE15x
The 15th annual SCaLE (Southern California Area Linux Expo) was held March 2-5, 2017 at the Pasadena Convention Center. This 4-day gathering of Linux enthusiasts was filled with 200+ speakers and presentations, 90+ exhibits and lots of special events.
Read moreDocker Container Compliance with InSpec
By Adam Leff
Thanks to its speed and approachability, Docker has done a great deal to make containers popular. Need a quick Redis server? docker run redis and boom, you’ve got a Redis server. However, compared to traditional hosts and virtual machines, containers are considerably more difficult to reason about.
Read moreQuantifying DevOps Outcomes: Managing Risk
Last week, we held our second webinar in a four part series focused on digital transformation. In that session, we focused on why mitigating risk is essential to increasing speed. In case you missed it, you can watch a recording of the second episode, “Managing Risk” below.
Read moreContinuous Compliance with InSpec: Bay Area Chef Meetup at Wealthfront
Last month, I spoke at the The Bay Area Chef Meetup, hosted by long time #ChefFriends, Wealthfront. They shared their Chef development process beginning with local dev, using Test Kitchen, all the way through their automated testing pipeline. There were also a lot of great discussions about test driven development practices.
Read moreChef and Habitat at Container World 2017
By Michael Ducy
Last week, Chef sponsored and attended Container World in Santa Clara, CA . This was an unofficial stop on the ongoing Hands on Habitat World Tour, and we held a well attended workshop on getting started with Habitat and containers.
Read moreChef Community Engineering – 2016 – A Year in Review
Sure, it’s a little late for a retrospective on 2016 but, as they say, better late than never! Here’s a look back at some of the amazing things the Chef Community Engineering team helped deliver in 2016.
Read moreSet up a Patch Management System Using Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
How does Chef handle patch management? The short answer is: it depends. For some organizations, patch management is simply a matter of running vendor-recommended updates on a fairly regular interval, while having the flexibility to install on-demand updates as vulnerabilities like 0-days require.
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