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Upgrading to Chef Client 13 – Answers to all your questions

It’s great to see how much excitement there is for the upcoming release of Chef Client 13 on April 10th! We’ve had a bunch of questions about this release. I’ll address some of the frequently asked questions here so you’ll be prepared to upgrade. How do I get Chef Client 13 today?

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What’s Cooking: Week of 3/27-3/31

We’re whipping up awesome all over the globe next week. Find us at an event near you and connect with our friendly community of wickedly smart practitioners who want to help you succeed with Chef.

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Simplifying Container Management with Habitat

Containers provide a delightful development experience. It’s easy to download a container image and get started writing code. But it’s a different story when you have to run containers in production at scale. That’s when all the hidden complexities become apparent and the real challenges begin.

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Habitat For Packaging Python Flask Web Services

This is a guest post by our friend Tom McLaughlin, Engineering Advocate at Threat Stack. It was first published on the Threat Stack blog on February 22, 2017. One of the challenges of building open source tools is figuring out how to package and distribute them. This is particularly true with web services.

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Chef Automate’s New Release Cadence

Over the last year, we’ve adopted a monthly release cadence for chef-client and chefdk. That regular cadence has served us well, allowing users to predictably plan for and schedule upgrades. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Chef Automate will follow suit and also adopt a monthly release cadence.

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Chef and Habitat at Container World 2017

Last week, Chef sponsored and attended Container World in Santa Clara, CA . This was an unofficial stop on the ongoing Hands on Habitat World Tour, and we held a well attended workshop on getting started with Habitat and containers.

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Chef Community Engineering – 2016 – A Year in Review

Sure, it’s a little late for a retrospective on 2016 but, as they say, better late than never! Here’s a look back at some of the amazing things the Chef Community Engineering team helped deliver in 2016.

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Habitat and Docker

This is a repost of a blog published on Medium by our friend Ben Dang. Everyone knows how to Docker, right? Here is a typical scenario below. # Build an Image (docker) $ docker build -t bdangit/helloworld .

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Preparing for Chef Client 13

Over the last year, we’ve adopted a monthly release cadence for Chef. This has served us well, giving our users (and our staff!) a predictable schedule and making it safer and easier to release a version of Chef than ever before. Now, it’s time to introduce the next step.

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Habitat application portability and understanding dynamic linking of ELF binaries

This post was originally published on the Hurry Up and Wait! blog on December 30, 2017. I do not come from a classical computer science background and have spent the vast majority of my career working with Java, C# and Ruby – mostly on Windows.

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