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Cookbook Dependency API Postmortem
On Tuesday, August 12th at 15:10 UTC, the cookbook dependency API provided by Supermarket became unusable. We are very sorry for this outage and interruption to workflow. In this post, I will explain what happened and the mitigation steps we are taking to prevent this from happening in the future.
Read moreWelcome More New Chefs!
By Lucas Welch
Continuing our series of updates on the new Chefs joining our engineering corps., we have another group of three delightful folks who have come on board.
Read moreSupermarket Dependency API Errors – Postmortem Meeting
Earlier this morning, a Supermarket code deployment caused the dependency API at /universe to start returning errors. Redis became unreachable, resulting in Berkshelf v3.x clients failing to resolve dependencies. At Chef, we conduct postmortem meetings for outages and issues with the site and services.
Read moreWindows Automation Testing w/Chef by @mwrockx
By Lucas Welch
Our friend Matt Wrock, a software engineer at CenturyLink Cloud, recently wrote a tremendous “how to” blog on Windows automation testing using Chef, Vagrant, and Test Kitchen. Matt writes: I work for CenturyLink Cloud and infrastructure automation is front and center to our business.
Read moreNew Features on the Supermarket
The Supermarket keeps getting better. In addition to the everyday improvements that we are pushing out all the time, we enabled two big features last week.
Read moreCookbook Hacking: Tomcat
The tomcat cookbook has seen a lot of interest recently and has a relatively large number of pull requests open against it. We want to pare down that number and give the community a chance to help steer the direction of the cookbook.
Read moreGuest editorial: “How to find your continuous delivery rhythm” by Jez Humble
By Lucas Welch
The third entry from our upcoming collection of editorials entitled The Quiet Revolutionaries comes from our friend Jez Humble, author of the book Continuous Delivery and principal at ThoughtWorks.
Read moreOver 10,000,000 served!
This month the Chef project crossed a major milestone: over 10 million downloads of open source Chef! THANK YOU for using Chef to automate all your things!
Read moreIs the Chef learning curve worth it?
By Lucas Welch
This post is comes from Steven Murawski, Chef’s newest Technical Community Manager and Instructor. It originally appeared on Steven’s blog here. Wow.. I haven’t even had my first day at Chef and I’ve landed a doozy of a question from Twitter.
Read moreBerkshelf API Issues – Postmortem Meeting
Earlier today we were alerted to an issue where Berkshelf v3 clients were crashing upon attempting to download cookbooks. We were able to identify an issue where Supermarket was returning HTTP URLs instead of HTTPS URLs in the Berkshelf API Endpoint. We flushed the cache to correct the issue.
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