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Awesome Community Chefs – Noah Kantrowitz
The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.
Read moreAnnouncing the ChefConf 2015 Schedule
By Lucas Welch
It’s here! The ChefConf 2015 schedule is now live and being updated continuously (well, maybe not continuously, but pretty frequently). This year’s ChefConf will feature more than 40 sessions of dynamite content, from technical how-to presentations and demos, to examinations of cultural change and organizational structure.
Read moreChef 11.18.6 Released
Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.6. This release pins the cacerts bundle to a known working version, which should work around issues where SSL connections would fail due to certificate errors. ## Wait… You skipped 11.18.2 and 11.18.4 I found minor issues with both of these releases (incorrect hyperlinks, incorrect gem version).
Read morePauly Comtois: My DevOps Story (Pt. 1)
Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.
Read moreThose Pesky Supermarket Download Counts
Since the launch of Supermarket there has been the occasional question about how quickly the download counts grow for any given cookbook. In fact, if you upload an empty cookbook, it will quickly have greater than 10,000 downloads.
Read moreStandard Bank: Our DevOps Journey (part 1)
The beginning. Welcome to the first of a series of blog posts that describe Standard Bank of South Africa‘s DevOps journey. This series describes how Standard Bank is transforming its delivery process to provide new features and services at velocity. Standard Bank is the largest bank in Africa.
Read moreChefDK 0.3.6 Released!
Hi Chefs, Today we released ChefDK 0.3.6. This release includes a bunch of new stuff: * Custom generator cookbooks can now be configured in your config.rb/knife.rb * `chef generate` will now generate ChefSpec tests for new recipes, and ServerSpec tests when a kitchen.
Read moreJoin Chef at DeveloperWeek 2015
By Lucas Welch
San Francisco’s largest tech event series, DeveloperWeek, is back in a major way this year, bringing more than 4,000 attendees together to hack, build, collaborate, learn, and, of course, party. From a 1,000-person hackathon (Accelerate 2015) to GirlDevWeek, DeveloperWeek 2015 is packed to the brim with awesome events and dynamic content.
Read moreConvert Your Bash Scripts With chef-apply
A Brief Note Before we get started, it’s worth mentioning that even though I’m going to pretend Chef is a scripting language, a Chef runlist describes the desired final state of a system, rather than providing a list of actions to execute.
Read moreChefConf 2015 CFP Deadline Extended to January 15th
A few weeks after joining Chef in 2014, I attended ChefConf for the first time. The introductory keynotes from Barry Crist (Chef’s CEO) and Adam Jacob (Chef’s CTO) really touched a nerve with the strong focus on empathy and delightful experiences.
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