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Chef and DevOps at JustGiving
JustGiving is the world’s largest fundraising platform. In the last twelve months, JustGiving has helped tens of millions of people raise over $700,000,000 dollars. This post describes how JustGiving uses Chef and DevOps to help manage its infrastructure and create a flexible, cooperative work environment.
Read moreJust Arrived – Supermarket 2.0.0!
Greetings fellow Cheffians! I am happy to report that we have just released Supermarket 2.0.0! The Supermarket – both the public and private versions – continues to evolve to the needs of the Chef community. As you might guess from the major version bump, this version contains a potentially breaking change.
Read moreNotes from the Lab: Community Cookbooks Survey Results
In the final post in our series on the Community Cookbooks Survey, we turn it over to Nicole to report the results. To catch up on how the project began and the science behind it, see these posts here and here.
Read moreChef Community: Engage with and learn from Chef practitioners
The Chef Community is a group of professionals interested in building and operating high velocity organizations. This is a diverse community with representation from many different backgrounds, levels of experience, and geographies.
Read moreNotes from the Lab: Developing and Validating the Community Cookbooks Survey
This is the second in a series of posts that tell the behind-the-scenes story of the Chef Community Cookbooks Survey—how the project began, the science behind it, and what the results showed. In this post, we talk to Dr. Nicole Forsgren about how she developed and validated the survey.
Read moreNotes from the Lab: The Chef Community Cookbooks Survey
At ChefConf 2015, members of the Chef community received an invitation to participate in the Chef Community Cookbooks Survey. The survey was designed by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Chef’s Director of Organizational Performance and Analytics, who is also a recognized expert on tool use, DevOps, and IT performance, particularly among technical professionals like sysadmins and developers.
Read moreAn Awesome Chef’s Thoughts on the Community Summit
By Lucas Welch
By now, hopefully all of you know we have Chef Community Summits in Seattle (Oct. 14-15) and London (Nov. 3-4) this Fall. Always some of the most engaging events of the year for the Chef Community, the Summits are organized as facilitated Open Space events.
Read moreChef Server 12.1.2 Released
By Tyler Cloke
Chef Server 12.1.2 is now released. This is a bug fix release which fixes installing remote add-on packages via the chef-server-ctl install command on apt systems. You can get the updated package here. Upgrade instructions are located here.
Read moreNotes from the Lab: What Matters in Knowledge Sharing?
Hello again! I mentioned in my intro blog that, before coming to Chef, I was an academic, and I am actively researching the ways tech professionals choose and use technology. A large part of that effort is writing and publishing peer-review research.
Read more5 Ways to Deal With the install.sh Curl Pipe Bash problem
## What is the Curl Pipe Bash Problem? You have probably seen documentation on commands to use to install chef-client that look something like: [bash] curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | bash -s — -v 12 [/bash] Or just: [bash] curl -L https://chef.sh | bash [/bash] Or for ChefDK: [bash] curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.
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