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Chef Open Source Community News – July 2018

By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in July across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.3, the newest release in the Chef 14 series. Chef 14.3 introduces the concept of preview resources, adds several new resources, and cleans up the shell_out API. What is a preview resource, you ask?
Read moreEnd-of-Life Announcement for Chef Compliance Server

By Julian Dunn
Today we are announcing the end-of-life date of the standalone Chef Compliance Server product to be December 31, 2018. All of the functionality of Chef Compliance Server is already incorporated into Chef Automate 2 whose general availability we announced at ChefConf 2018.
Read moreDeploy Applications with HPE OneSphere and Chef Automate
HPE Discover gets underway this week and it’s a great opportunity to see how HPE and Chef seamlessly integrate to help companies of all sizes manage their IT infrastructure. Chef and HPE’s enterprise systems encourage modern day cloud velocity to get your organization on the path towards digital transformation.
Read moreChefConf 2018 Keynote Video: Product Vision & Announcements

By Julian Dunn
It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – May 2018

By Julian Dunn
Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world.
Read moreChef Automate 2 – A Modern Platform for Continuous Automation
We are delighted to announce the general availability of Chef Automate 2, a major upgrade to our continuous automation platform. Chef Automate 2 is the culmination of a nine month re-architecture initiative to improve performance, scale and responsiveness.
Read moreRelativity’s Cloud Theory Becomes Reality with Azure, Chef, and 10th Magnitude
Bringing your companies platform to the cloud with the goal of developing software with speed requires a solid strategy and key partner integration. Relativity, an e-discovery platform for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects, realized together with Microsoft Azure, Chef Automate, and 10th Magnitude, this could be a reality.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – April 2018

By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in the Chef, Habitat and InSpec open-source communities over the last month. Chef The biggest news from the Chef project is that we released Chef 14, a faster and easier to use Chef.
Read moreUsing AWS Systems Manager to Run Compliance Scans Using InSpec
Starting today, all AWS customers have the ability to perform compliance as code using InSpec through AWS EC2 Systems Manager (SSM). InSpec, an open-source testing framework from Chef, provides teams the ability to define and assess system state and status across the entire application lifecycle.
Read moreOpen Source & Dollar Bills: Building a Successful Company on “Free” Software

By Tasha Drew
How do you build a successful, profitable company on top of open-source software, when you’re giving away the core product?
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