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Chef Open Source Community News – April 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in the Chef, Habitat and InSpec open-source communities over the last month. Chef The biggest news from the Chef project is that we released Chef 14, a faster and easier to use Chef.
Read moreFulfilling the Need for Continuous Improvement with DevOps Dojos
By Joel Tosi
By Dion Stewart
In The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations the authors describe “The Three Ways” – the underlying principles forming the basis for all DevOps practices.
Read moreContinuous Monitoring
By Blerim Sheqa
The word continuous describes a process that never ends, marked by uninterrupted extension in space, time or sequence. In the world of DevOps many things are continuous: Continuous Integration, Continuous Server Deployment, Continuous Application Deployment, Continuous Everything.
Read moreAwesome Community Chef Nominations 2018
By Mandi Walls
One of our traditions at ChefConf is to recognize the invaluable contributions that our community makes to our open source projects. Lots of awesome stuff in the Chef ecosystem originated in the community, from Test Kitchen to Berkshelf to so many cookbooks for so many things.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – March 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s roundup of all the news from across Chef’s open source projects for the month of March. Chef With only another two weeks to go until the official release of Chef 14, the team is hard at work on merging in the last features with the stretch goal of hitting 30 new resources.
Read moreWhy “Why-Run” Mode Is Considered Harmful
By Julian Dunn
This is a bit of an odd post as product marketing is usually not in the position of recommending against the use of certain product features. But a question about Chef’s “why-run” mode came up during a webinar last week, and we’ve heard several other stories of customers still using this feature in Chef.
Read moreA trip to the Wayback Machine: DevOps Kung Fu and throwback t-shirts
By Matt Carter
With ChefConf18 coming up in May, we’ve been digging into the archives to share some of attendee’s favorite sessions from past events. This week, we’re going back to 2015 where Chef CTO and co-founder Adam Jacob shares his thoughts and insights on the relationship and similarity between DevOps practices and Kung Fu.
Read moreOpen Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software
By Tasha Drew
How do you build a successful, profitable company on top of open-source software, when you’re giving away the core product?
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – February 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here is this month’s roundup of news from Chef’s open source projects: Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and other miscellaneous tools. Chef The Chef Client team is busy preparing for the release of Chef 14 in April and trying to squeeze in as many features before we start creating release candidates.
Read moreHabitat and Helm Exporter
By Tasha Drew
A group of Habitat core team members is at Helm Summit in beautiful (but surprisingly frosty) Portland this week, to learn more about how Helm contributors are continuing to automate application deployment and management to Kubernetes clusters.
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