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Guest Post: Creating Your Own Chef Cookbook Generator

This post was originally published on Medium.com by Community member David Echols. Creating Your Own Chef Cookbook Generator The Chef Development Kit (Chef DK) comes with an awesome tool: chef.

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Release: Chef Client 12.0.1

Ohai chefs, Today we have released Chef Client 12.0.1 with some minor backwards compatibility fixes to make it easier to migrate from Chef Client 11. 12.0.0 release was done at an inconvenient time and caused unexpected upgrade errors for some of our users.

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Release: Chef Client 12.0.0

Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0.0 which complements Chef Server 12. This version introduces numerous improvements to Chef Client while retaining backwards compatibility with current versions of Chef Client and Chef Server. ## MVP This release wouldn’t be possible without the help of Chef community along the way.

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Push Jobs Server 1.1.6 Release

Ohai everyone, We have released push-jobs-server 1.1.6 to fix an issue in which unsigned packages for push-jobs-server 1.1.5 caused its installation to fail. This is a point release because we also had to upgrade a test dependency on mixlib-shellout 1.6.0. There are no other changes between push-jobs-server 1.1.5 and 1.1.6.

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Adopt a Cookbook

At one point, you had this great idea for a cookbook. You built it, and you shared it with everyone on the Supermarket. You rock! But at some point later on maintaining that cookbook became something that you couldn’t do any more.

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Postmortem: ohai & mixlib-shellout gem release issues

Hey chefs, On 2014/12/01 we have released a few gems in order to prepare for upcoming Chef Client 12.0.0 release. During these releases we’ve caused 2 distruptions: 1. `ohai 7.6.0` release broke gem installation of `chef 11.16.4` when using an older version of `rubygems`. 2. Yanking `mixlib-shellout 1.6.0` release from `rubygems.

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Push Jobs Server 1.1.5 is out, and more improvements are in the works.

Push Jobs Server 1.1.5 is out We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.5 of Push Jobs Server. This fixes minor issues with the push-jobs-ctl test command that caused failures when the Push Jobs Server was installed on Chef 12.

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Ruby 1.9.3 EOL and Chef 12

Hi Chefs, We've decided not to support Ruby 1.9.3 in the upcoming Chef 12.0 release, in accordance with the support policy we approved in Chef RFC 015 and made explicit here. Before explaining the rationale, I'd like to be clear that Chef 12 Omnibus packages will ship with Ruby 2.1 for Unix-like systems and 2.

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Chef Server 12 Released

Ohai Chefs! Today, after a thorough RC testing phase that included a great amount of feedback and contribution from the Chef community, we’re pleased to announce the GA release of Chef Server 12. This release brings the previously premium features of Enterprise Chef, namely multi-tenancy and role-based access control, into Open Source Chef.

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Chef Client Repo Force Push to Master – Post Mortem

Ohai Chefs! On November 19th a Chef branch was accidentally force pushed to master on Github, causing existing pull requests to include unnecessary diffs. We discovered the issue, rolled the git tree back to the correct state, and applied the commits which were originally meant to be included.

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