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Chef Open Source Community News – September 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in September across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef 14 is Chef 14.5.33, which includes two new resources: windows_workgroup, which allows you to modify the system’s Windows workgroup, and locale, which sets the system locale.
Read moreIn Search of Speed: The State of Applications
By Julian Dunn
We are very pleased to announce the results from Chef’s 2018 State of Applications Survey. Earlier this year, we partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 347 applications and IT operations professionals worldwide on the topic of application build and release processes.
Read moreHappy 10th Anniversary Chef
By Adam Jacob
Today is 10 years from the day that Chef became a company (at the time, as OpsCode). What started as a consulting company with many of my best friends (Nathan Haneysmith, Barry Steinglass, and Joshua Timberman, our first employee), eventually became the Chef we all know and love.
Read moreAnnouncing the closure of the CBGB
When we announced the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB) in late 2015, our aims were to: Provide a forum for individuals, users, and companies to discuss the issues within the CBGB Scope. Provide guidance and input to Leadership, and where possible, present a consistent and consolidated opinion from the broader Chef community.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – August 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s round up of what happened in August across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month’s release of Chef Client 14.4 is the newest in the Chef 14 series, and includes seven new preview resources, many improvements to existing resources, and a brand new Knife profile management command.
Read moreIntroducing Cacher
By BlakeIrvin
“If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe”, and if you wish to build an app using the interpreted language framework of your choice, you usually have to install a whole universe of dependencies.
Read moreGuest Post: Sensu Habitat Core Plans are Here
Sensu 2.0 and Habitat are both modern distributed systems, one for monitoring, the other for application packaging and deployment.
Read more“Do Change” with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
By Matt Carter
One of the best things about working at Chef is seeing how our customers use technology to create innovations and make a real difference through their work.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – July 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in July across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.3, the newest release in the Chef 14 series. Chef 14.3 introduces the concept of preview resources, adds several new resources, and cleans up the shell_out API. What is a preview resource, you ask?
Read moreQ&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?
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