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Quick Tip: Create a Provisioner Node
This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. This quick tip is brought to you by my preparation for my ChefConf talk about using Chef Provisioning to build a Chef Server Cluster, which is based on my blog post about the same.
Read moreOur mailing lists have [not] moved!
UPDATE After a few hours on the new mailing list we ran into issues with rate limiting. We’re working to get those resolved but, in the meantime, please continue to use the old mailing lists. **Chef Users** * chef@lists.opscode.com * http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef **Chef Developers** * chef-dev@lists.opscode.com * http://lists.opscode.
Read morePartner Spotlight: Booz Allen Hamilton Project Jellyfish 2.0
Project Jellyfish 2.0: The Next Step for Cloud Brokering Last year was a big one for Booz Allen’s cloud broker team.
Read moreChefConf Sponsor Spotlight: Careers
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our series of posts about the tremendous sessions, workshop, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, this blog is dedicated to the many career opportunities you can explore at ChefConf, including those at two of our sponsors – Target and Disney.
Read morePauly Comtois: My DevOps Story (Pt. 2)
This post continues our bi-weekly blog series on Awesome Chef Paul Comtois’ DevOps Story. You can read part two in this series below, while part one is here. Context: Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.
Read moreChefConf Workshop Spotlight: “Building A Self-Documenting Application: A Study in Chef and Compliance”
By Lucas Welch
This is a guest blog from Kevin Gilpin, CTO @ Conjur, one of our many awesome ChefConf sponsors. Kevin and his team will also be leading a workshop on March 31, detailed in the following post. When it comes to systems documentation for compliance or regulatory purposes, you can hear the engineers groan.
Read moreChef Management Console 1.9.0 Release
By Nathan Smith
Manage 1.9.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes packages that work on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and Redhat Enterprise Linux 7, as well as numerous bug fixes and low-severity security updates. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.
Read moreMailing List Migration
The migration was rolled back. Please continue to use the existing mailing lists until further notice. ### lists.opscode.com moving to Google Groups To: Chef mailing lists Subject: Good bye, lists.opscode.com. Was Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello lists.opscode.
Read moreChefDK 0.4.0 Released!
By Tyler Ball
Ohai Chefs! Today we released ChefDK 0.4.0. As promised in an earlier blog post, this release includes the latest stable version of Chef Client. Other than that, we’ve gone through and updated a lot of packages that ship with ChefDK. These include: chef 12.0.3 chefspec 4.2.0 chef-provisioning 0.18 chef-provisioning-aws 0.2.1 chef-provisioning-fog 0.12 chef-vault 2.4.
Read moreBusting GHOSTs with Chef
By Julian Dunn
We nearly escaped the first month of the new year without another major security vulnerability, but just a few days ago, security researchers found another serious bug, which they named GHOST. This time it’s in the gethostbyname() function inside glibc, the GNU C library, so the name is apt.
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