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Pre-release Announcement : Native 64-bit Windows Chef Client
By Salim Alam
Note: there is an update to this post here. Ohai Chefs! I’m happy to share some exciting news for our Windows users – we now have a native 64-bit Chef Client available for you to download and try out here.
Read moreChef Server 12.3.0 Release Announcement
Ohai Chefs! I’m happy to announce that Chef Server 12.3.0 is now available for download on the Chef Server Downloads Page and via our Apt/RPM repositories. Here are some highlights from this release: Node API change to include Policy support. ElasticSearch and external Solr support.
Read moreChef Reporting 1.5.5
Ohai Chefs, We are pleased to announce that Chef Reporting 1.5.5 is now available. This release fixes several bugs and allows for the configuration of an external Postgres database. Changelog Some more insight into the changes with this release: This release includes changes from the 1.5.4, 1.5.3 and 1.5.
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 moreCustom Resources in Chef Client 12.5
By Jamie Bright
On October 28, 2015, Chef Principal Engineer John Keiser presented a webinar on Custom Resources in Chef Client 12.5. John introduced the concept of the custom resource, explained why you would want to write one, introduced the language concepts, and walked through a tutorial of how to make your own. A recording of the webinar is available below.
Read moreChef Reporting 1.5.4 Released
***UPDATE (11/2/2015): The builds 1.5.4, 1.5.3 and 1.5.2 for Chef Reporting have been pulled as they were found to be incompatible with Chef Server versions less than 12.2. We are quickly working on fixing the issue and will notify you when the new build is complete via our blog.
Read moreChefDK 0.9 Released
By Julian Dunn
We’re pleased to announce the release of ChefDK 0.9 today, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release is primarily to upgrade the embedded version of Chef Client to 12.5, which is being released today. You can read about the new features in Chef Client 12.5 in a companion blog post.
Read moreChef Client 12.5 Released
By Julian Dunn
We’re very excited to announce the release of Chef Client 12.5, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release has several important new features that we’d like to highlight, so read on for more details. New custom resource model One of the greatest things about Chef is its easy extensibility.
Read moreChef Management Console 2.0.0 Release
By Nathan Smith
UPDATE (9/28/2015): The build for Manage 2.0.0 has been pulled after bugs were reported. We are quickly working on fixing the issue and will notify you when the new build is complete via our blog. Manage 2.0.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release gets a major version bump from 1.21.1 to 2.0.
Read moreChefDK 0.8.0 Release
By John Keiser
Ohai Chefs! Time for a shiny new ChefDK release :) ChefDK 0.8.0 is now available at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ on OS/X (including OS X 10.11, “El Capitan”), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows, Ubuntu and Debian!
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