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ChefDK 0.3.2 Released!

Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.3.2. This release fixes a handful of issues with the SSL configuration in ChefDK. Most importantly, we've rolled back the version of the CA Certificate bundle included in ChefDK.

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Serving up delight at the Chef Community Summits

This month we’ve held two Chef Community Summits and it’s been a real delight watching the community gather and discuss most important topics. We held a Chef Community Summit in Seattle at the beginning of October and another in London last week. Both Summits were facilitated Open Space events.

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Chef Client Release: 11.16.4

Ohai Chefs, Today we’ve made a new patch release for Chef Client: 11.16.4. This release includes security fixes and a few major bug fixes. Here is the list of changes included in this release: * Windows omnibus installer security updates for redistributed bash.exe / sh.exe vulnerabilities (“Shellshock”) CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187.

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Crossing the Pond: Chef Summit London 2014

Next week is an exciting week for Chef as we kickoff our first Chef Summit in London. If you’ve never attended a Chef Summit in the past, it’s an opportunity for our folks to meet with members of the Chef community to talk about all sorts of things.

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Chef Reporting API and Resource Updates

This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. Have you ever wanted to find a list of nodes that updated a specific resource in a period of time? Such as “show me all the nodes in production that had an application service restart in the last hour”?

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Serving up Delight in London

The week of October 13-17 is full of amazing Chef events in London. Make plans to join us for as many of these events as you can. And if you would like an early preview, join us this week for the Chef Users London Meetup on Thursday, October 9.

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Chef and Orchestration

When talking about the management of complex systems, orchestration is always a hot topic. This is because orchestration is often seen as the easiest way to represent and model complex systems, as well as provide a path to delivering complex systems. Most often orchestration is represented through a topology model.

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Detecting & Repairing Shellshock with Chef

The Bourne Shell – fifth film in the trilogy. Jason Bourne tries to patch servers against obscure bug. No fights or car chases. Avoid. — Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) September 27, 2014 To nobody’s delight and amusement, this has been the year of critical, remotely-exploitable security vulnerabilities.

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Guest Post: Introducing Chef-Guard

Sander van Harmelen is a mission-critical engineer at Schuberg Philis, where he helps build and maintain business-critical systems with 100% uptime. With expertise in both coding and operations, he literally lives DevOps and is an epic Chef contributor. In this guest post, Sander introduces us to a new open source Chef tool – Chef-Guard.

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Chef analytics 1.0.3 released

Chef analytics 1.0.3 is a bug-fix release to allow you to use your own SSL certificates.

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