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Awesome Chef – Chef’s Youngest Contributor Jane Ireton
By Lucas Welch
Last week, Jane Ireton, daughter of Chef Community member Doug Ireton, became Chef’s youngest contributor (eight years old!) by making this commit to Chef provisioning: This is, of course, not only awesome and delightful, but exactly what the Chef Community is all about.
Read moreIn case you missed it: The Lean Enterprise
By Jez Humble
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on The Lean Enterprise today. If you didn’t have a chance to watch it live, you have two chances to see it again. First, by popular demand, we are doing an encore presentation on November 21st, 2014 at 10am GMT.
Read moreContributors Section of Supermarket Disabled – Postmortem Meeting
On Monday, November 10th, 2014, it was discovered that the contributors section of the Supermarket, including the Curry Bot functions, had been disabled. This resulted in Pull Requests not being properly labeled and made it impossible for users to sign ICLAs and CCLAs.
Read moreChef Provisioning: Infrastructure As Code
By John Keiser
Chef Provisioning is now a Release Candidate, included in the ChefDK version 0.3.4! This powerful new Chef featureset lets you idempotently create and converge machines, images, load balancers and other infrastructure, no matter where they are: cloud, bare metal, virtual machines, or containers. This is the next step in configuration management: Infrastructure as Code.
Read moreSecurity Update: Hosted Chef
Later today, we will be rolling out an update to Hosted Chef that may impact your future use of data bag items in cookbooks. This change will remove the Chef Client’s default permissions to ‘create’, ‘update’ and ‘delete’ data bags in newly-created organizations.
Read moreReflecting on Six Years With Chef
This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. It actually started a bit over seven years ago. I saw the writing on the wall at IBM; my job was soon to be outsourced.
Read moreChef Governance & Maintenance
This post originally appeared at https://coderanger.net/chef-governance/ In a way this is a follow-up to my earlier post about the state of community involvement in Chef.
Read moreA Chef Community on Stack Exchange
A Chef-specific Stack Exchange has been proposed. Follow the proposal, ask a few questions, and read this post for more background. At the Chef Community Summit in Seattle, we discussed how to make the new user experience for Chef users better.
Read moreThe ChefDK on Windows Survival Guide
Intro The ChefDK is intended to “contain everything you need to start using Chef” and greatly ease the Developer Workstation setup process. Despite the apparent similarities to the Chef Omnibus package, ChefDK users have found a number of issues and inconsistencies, particularly on Windows.
Read moreChef is going BIG at AWS re:Invent
AWS re:Invent is just around the corner and all of us here at Chef are pretty fired up. The show is sold out, so hopefully you were able to snag tickets.
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