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Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey (Pt. 4)
This is the fourth entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here, the second entry here and the third entry here. Continue below for part four.
Read moreChef Management Console 1.11.0 Release
By Nathan Smith
Manage 1.11.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes fixes for reporting dashboard errors, changes to make running Manage behind a load balancer more usable, and various other bug fixes and improvements. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.
Read moreBento Box Update for CentOS and Fedora
This is not urgent, but you may encounter SSL verification errors when using vagrant directly, or vagrant through test kitchen. Special Thanks to Joe Damato of Package Cloud for spending his time debugging this issue with me the other day.
Read moreChefConf Talk Spotlight: A sobering journey from Parse / Facebook
By Lucas Welch
We’re five weeks away from ChefConf 2015 and we’re filling seats fast, so, if you haven’t already, register today and guarantee your seat at the epicenter of DevOps.
Read morePauly Comtois: My DevOps Story (Pt. 3)
This post concludes our bi-weekly blog series on Awesome Chef Paul Comtois’ DevOps Story. You can read the final part below, while part one is here and part two is here. Thank you to Pauly for sharing his tale with us!
Read moreIBM InterConnect and Chef
By Matt Ray
This week our friends at IBM are hosting their InterConnect 2015 conference and we’re pleased to announce expanding (and existing) support for a wide variety of their products. IBM is synonymous with the Enterprise and they have embraced Chef in a big way.
Read moreCookbook Caching
By Joe DeVivo
If you’re configuring cookbook s3 URL TTL in your `chef-server.rb` configuration file (`opscode_erchef[‘s3_url_ttl’]`), then you’ve been creating cookbook URLs that expire that many (28800 by default) seconds from “now” (i.e. the time of the request), which is great for Chef Client runs, but it’s terrible for caching!
Read moreChef 12.1.0 chef_gem resource warnings
Apologies for the new Warn SPAM Chef 12.1.
Read moreChefConf Talk Spotlight: Scholastic’s Tech Transformation: Taking Servers from Pets to Cattle, Now with More Containers
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our ongoing blog series highlighting all the fantastic talks, workshops, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, today we’re focusing on our friend John Byrne from Scholastic and his talk, “Scholastic’s Tech Transformation: Taking Servers from Pets to Cattle, Now with More Containers”.
Read moreChef-12 Dynamic Resource and Provider Resolution
Background In Chef 12 the old Chef::Platform hashmap located in `lib/chef/platform/provider_mapping.rb` has been deprecated. In its place is a dynamic provider and resolver resolution mechanism which is preferred and which can be manipulated via DSL methods on the resource and provider.
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