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Security response: bash on Windows Chef Client, Chef DK, and Push Jobs Client packages (CVE-2014-6271)
By Adam Edwards
We’ve verified that for Windows platforms only, the Chef Client, Chef DK, and Push Jobs Client packages contain versions of the bash command interpreter that are affected by CVE-2014-6271, the “ShellShock” advisory.
Read moreDevOps Against Inhumanity: Uniting To Put Technology First
By Julian Dunn
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving my talk “DevOps Against Inhumanity” at the first-ever DevOpsDays Toronto. Toronto’s actually my hometown, so it was fun to return and see what’s changed, both in technology and with the city. What is “DevOps Against Inhumanity?
Read moreChef! Where is my Ubuntu 14.04 service support?
By JJ Asghar
So you’ve decided to update or use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. You’ve probably started leveraging Chef in some awesome way. The problem is, you put in a nice little service Resource and see something like: Chef::Exceptions::Exec \———————- /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
Read moreChef Teams with AWS, Brings DevOps to the Pop-Up Loft
By Lucas Welch
We’re excited to announce we’ve joined with our friends at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the reopening of the AWS Pop-Up Loft, which had a very successful run earlier this year. Chef is joining AWS to bring DevOps and IT automation expertise to the re-launched Pop-Up Loft, opening this October 1, in San Francisco.
Read morevagrant-omnibus Issues
Ohai Chefs! Yesterday evening during the process of building a new release of Chef the chef gem was pushed to RubyGems ahead of the complete omnibus release making it out to OmniTruck. Unfortunately, this has broken vagrant-omnibus for anyone that has the version set to latest or hasn’t explicitly set a version.
Read moreWelcome (more and more) new Chefs
By Lucas Welch
Here’s yet another post in our ongoing series of blogs about the many new engineers joining our team. Get to know a little bit more about the awesome folks who have jumped on-board our ship to make Chef even more delightful.
Read moreNew Supermarket Features: Fieri and Contingent Cookbooks
By Josh Black
We’ve got a couple of new features to announce for Supermarket. Fieri The first is a new tab called “Foodcritic” that shows up when you are viewing a cookbook. Now, when you upload a cookbook, Supermarket will make a background request to a new service we wrote, called Fieri.
Read moreNew Book: “Customizing Chef” by Jon Cowie
By Lucas Welch
The fine folks at O’Reilly just published our good friend and Awesome Chef Jon Cowie‘s (Etsy) book Customizing Chef. This book is a must read for anyone who has already gone through our Fundamentals webinar series, or is using Chef beyond the beginning stages.
Read moreWebinar recording: Chef for Containers
Tom Duffield gave a webinar on managing containers, including Docker, with Chef earlier today. Tom’s presentation includes a great overview of Docker and insights into why and how you can use Chef to improve your container workflow.
Read moreThere is one Chef Server, and it is Open Source
By Adam Jacob
Chef is used by companies of all shapes and sizes, from tiny startups to the largest companies in the world, to create businesses where infrastructure moves as fast as software.
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