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Announcing Chef Server High Availability and Replication
By Julian Dunn
Today I’m thrilled to announce two new add-ons for Chef Server 12: Chef Server High Availability and Chef Server Replication. These two features are among the most-frequently requested product enhancements and allow customers to geographically distribute highly-available Chef server clusters while maintaining a single view for Chef content – cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags.
Read moreChef Client 11.16.0 gets into PowerShell DSC
By Adam Edwards
Ohai Chefs. Today’s release of Chef Client 11.16.0 marks the inclusion of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) support into Chef Client for Windows. DSC is a powerful configuration management platform built into PowerShell 4.0, and now you can use it with Chef! To try it out, just configure a system with Chef Client 11.16.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef Server 12 Release Candidate
Today we’re pleased to announce the public availability of the first Chef Server 12 Release Candidate. This release brings the differentiating features of Enterprise Chef, namely multi-tenancy and role-based access control, into Open Source Chef.
Read moreChef RFCs and You
This was originally posted on coderanger.net. Chef RFCs are a way to propose and discuss changes to Chef and related projects. What is an RFC? Each RFC proposes a major change to Chef or another piece of software, or to the processes we use to develop them.
Read moreWHY CHEF + DSC? (REVISITED)
This was originally posted on stevenmurawski.com. SETTING THE TABLE First off, let me get on record – I LOVE DSC. When I was at Stack Exchange, I rolled Desired State Configuration out during the Server 2012 R2 preview timeframe. I coddled it through the move to RTM and then to General Availability.
Read moreGetting Started with oc-id and Supermarket
Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 includes oc-id, the OAuth2 service that powers id.opscode.com. After upgrading to this release, Chef customers can run their own Supermarket service behind a firewall. oc-id setup: 1: Add the following setting to your /etc/opscode/private-chef.
Read moreBehaving Responsibly in the Chef Community
Today one of our most prolific community members announced his decision to leave Chef and go on a software engineering sabbatical, in part because of how he was treated by a few members in our community. As a company, Chef takes the safety and security of our employees extremely seriously.
Read moreServing Up Delight at the Community Summits
We are excited to announce this year’s Chef Community Summits! The Chef Community Summit is a a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Chef engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. This intimate gathering of enthusiasts is facilitated as an Open Space event.
Read moreOn Joining Chef
By Jez Humble
As many of you in the Community have seen by now, I recently joined Chef as a Vice President (more on what in particular I will be up to in a minute).
Read moreJez Humble Joins Chef as Vice President of Development Velocity
By Lucas Welch
Continuous Delivery Pioneer to Play Leadership Role at Chef as Enterprise DevOps Adoption Surges SEATTLE – August 20, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced Jez Humble has joined the company as vice president of development velocity.
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