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Nordstrom’s chefdk_bootstrap Cookbook
Introduction Nordstrom relies on Chef to manage over 6500 Linux and Windows servers in their data center and in the cloud. More and more app development teams at Nordstrom are adopting Chef to help them deliver software and manage their infrastructure.
Read moreUpdate: Chef 12.4.3 Released
By John Keiser
Update: We’ve just released 12.4.3, which fixes a couple of 12.4.2 regressions on Windows: The Windows chef installer was much bigger than 12.4.1 (it’s back down under 80MB). chef-client raised an error when run as a Windows service (bug) Details on the original release (12.4.
Read moreRemediating “escaped defects” within continuous delivery
Today I’m going to share a story about an incident we had here at Chef on September 9, 2015. Normally we don’t make a public blog post about an internal-only incident, but this particular issue had some contributing factors that are related to our ChefDK project, and affected the release schedule for version 0.8.0.
Read moreThe Chef Community Summit 2015 is coming
By Sean O'Meara
Every October, Chef users descend upon Seattle for my favorite tech event of the year. The Community Summit is an Open Spaces format “unconference” where the participants run the show. Events like these are the heart of Open Source. The best parts of the Chef ecosystem are born here.
Read moreAn update on Chef
By Barry Crist
In the Northwest we’ve gone very quickly from summer to Fall. And what a summer it was. In fact, 2015 is clearly shaping up to be a record year across all of our key metrics: revenue, new customers, and partnerships.
Read moreThe State of the Public Supermarket
The public Supermarket is the place to share cookbooks and other tools and plugins with the Chef community. There are more than 2400 cookbooks currently available for download on the Supermarket. Many people in our community use cookbooks from the Supermarket to automate and manage applications and infrastructure every day.
Read moreWhat’s Up With The Chef Community Summit?
With the Chef Community Summits (Seattle and London) fast approaching, I wanted to share my experiences as a new member of the Chef community about the value of the Chef Community Summit. Last fall, I attended the Chef Community Summit in Seattle. It was my first Chef community event larger than a user group.
Read moreLets build a Minecraft Server with Chef
By JJ Asghar
There are many ways to use Chef and not all of them have to be related to your day job. If you’re a fan of Minecraft you can use Chef to create a Minecraft server on Digital Ocean.
Read moreChef Analytics 1.1.6 Released
Ohai Chefs, We are pleased to announce that Chef Analytics 1.1.6 is now available. This is a bug fix release; details of the issues resolved are provided below. Fixes Data was not appearing in the nodes view for organizations having more than 25 nodes. Data was not appearing in the nodes view when switching organizations.
Read moreJoin us at VMworld 2015
By Lucas Welch
VMworld 2015 kicks of in San Francisco, CA, on August 31, and your #cheffriends will be out in force. Visit us at booth 2523 to talk Chef, automation, DevOps, and, of course, share some #hugops. We’re also participating in a number of presentations, including: DevOps in the Virtualized World – Who are the Players?
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