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ChefConf
The ChefConf 2017 Call for Presentations is Open!
By Lucas Welch
ChefConf 2017 takes place May 22-24, in beautiful Austin, TX, and we want you to present! The ChefConf 2017 call for presentations is now open. We’re excited to hear all the ways you’re using Chef to automate your infrastructure, compliance policies, and applications. Tell us about the successes and pitfalls you’ve encountered along the way.
Read moreBreaking Technology Silos at the NFL with Chef
By Jamie Bright
Today kicks off the 97th season of the National Football League (NFL). In that spirit, we’d like to give a shout out to our friend Sean Walberg who works on the infrastructure team there. At this year’s ChefConf, Sean told the story of breaking technology silos at the NFL with Chef.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef Awards – 2016
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
Read moreSpice Up Your Chef Usage on AWS
By Jamie Bright
Looking for ways to spice up your Chef usage on AWS? In this recored session from ChefConf 2016, Josh Campbell, a partner solutions architect at AWS, shows you how to leverage services like AWS Lambda, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon CloudWatch Events, and Amazon EC2 Run Command with Chef.
Read moreBuilding Modern Cloud Applications on Azure
By Jamie Bright
At ChefConf 2016, Boris Scholl, Principal PM for Azure, presented, “Building Modern Cloud Applications on Azure.” Watch the recorded session below to hear why Microsoft is betting on open source in the cloud, how they enable, integrate, release and contribute to it, and why it’s important for your DevOps practices, wherever you are in your journey.
Read moreSpeed AND Safety: No Longer at Odds
By Lucas Welch
Today in IT, the need to maintain security and governance is often at odds with the imperative to move quickly. At this year’s ChefConf, compliance and security were topics of much discussion among presenters and attendees alike.
Read moreHabitat 301: Building Habitats
By Julian Dunn
In this Habitat 301 session from ChefConf 2016, Jamie Winsor, senior software engineer at Chef, discusses the design of the Habitat build service, including the use of such technologies such as ZeroMQ and protocol buffers (protobufs) — as well as Habitat itself — to build a dynamically-scalable distributed system.
Read moreHabitat 201: Habitat in the Ecosystem
By Julian Dunn
In this Habitat 201 talk from ChefConf 2016, George Miranda, product marketing manager at Chef, talks about how Habitat integrates into the rest of the ecosystem around containers and modern application management. He discusses Habitat’s integrations with Docker, rkt, Mesosphere and Kubernetes and what role Habitat plays in this world.
Read moreHabitat 101: An Introduction to Habitat
By Julian Dunn
We were delighted to welcome so many of you to ChefConf 2016 this year, particularly the newest members of our community: the Habitat users. We saw incredible interest in Habitat at ChefConf such that we had to repeat all the sessions the next day, due to overflow crowds.
Read moreThe Community Talks DevOps & Open Source at ChefConf
By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community came alive at ChefConf in Austin last week with more than 1,500 passionate DevOps leaders, practitioners, and innovators meeting to talk infrastructure, applications, automation and driving business value through IT. Our CEO Barry Crist took the stage to talk about what it means to ship ideas in today’s modern workplace.
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