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Chef Certification: What it is and how to do it
The Chef Certification Program is an exciting opportunity to deliver more value for your organization and take your career to the next level. Chef skills are in greater demand than ever.
Read moreThe Ruby Behind Chef
On September 14th I presented a live webinar on The Ruby Behind Chef. There is quite a bit of Ruby behind Chef and it is rather complex. Watch the recording below to hear me explain core Ruby topics by creating our own version of Chef: T-Rex Chef.
Read more3 reasons to Invest in Your Chef Education

By Brian Turner
It has been a beautiful summer here in the Pacific Northwest. With fall arriving in just a few weeks, my attention has turned to “back to school” activities. Here in the office, this has me thinking about ways the Chef training program supports our practitioners and partners.
Read moreCreate a Windows Server 2016 Vagrant box with Chef and Packer
Matt Wrock has a new article in the Skills Library, “Create a Windows Server 2016 Vagrant box with Chef and Packer.” In it, Matt talks about how to use Chef and Packer together to create a Windows Server 2016 on a Vagrant box.
Read moreChef Launches Certification and Training Program Amid Increasing Demand for DevOps Skills

By Lucas Welch
New Certification Program Provides Developers, System Administrators, and IT Professionals with Automation Skills at the Core of DevOps AUSTIN, TX – July 12, 2016 – From ChefConf 2016, Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced the Chef Certification Program, providing IT practitioners with the tools and resources necessary to build modern automation expertise.
Read moreChef Delivery Tutorial on Learn Chef
Today we released a refresh to our Chef Delivery tutorial on Learn Chef. The refresh features a simpler, automated setup procedure and greater emphasis on building the skills you need to get started with Chef Delivery. The automated setup, which runs on AWS, brings up a fully-functional Chef Delivery installation in minutes.
Read moreChef Delivery at Ooyala
Ooyala has been using Chef to configure and provision its deployment framework, Atlantis, for the past year and a half. Now, Ooyala is beginning to incorporate Chef Delivery into its release process. Read about their project in the Skills Library article, Chef Delivery at Ooyala.
Read moreChefDK 0.10.0 Released
By Tyler Ball
Greetings! We released ChefDK 0.10.0 today and it can be obtained from our downloads page. This release includes the following new/updated dependencies: InSpec version 0.9.2 Kitchen InSpec version 0.9.0 Knife Windows 1.1.1 Chef Provisioning 1.5.0 Chef Provisioning AWS 1.6.
Read moreHow to Be a Secure Chef
Many Chef users are interested in security. To answer the questions you’ve raised, we’ve put a new article called “How to be a Secure Chef” in the Chef skills library. You’ll find suggestions for securing the Chef server, the Chef client, and your workstation.
Read moreJoint Webinar: Automating Microsoft Azure with Chef
On March 19th we’re excited to bring together Microsoft and Chef to dig into the technical specifics outlined in our recent joint partnership announcement. Michael Ducy (@mfdii) and Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) of Chef will be joined by Kundana Palagiri (@KundanaP) of Microsoft to dig into what is means to use Chef as the DevOps platform with Microsoft Azure.
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