Can you prove your servers are hardened correctly? Can you patch zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes? How quickly can you generate the reports your auditors demand? With Chef you’ll get it done quickly using automation. Chef Compliance lets you express your compliance rules as code. You can easily run those rules as tests whenever you want.

Criteo is the leading performance marketing technology company. It is based in Paris with offices around the world.  Criteo enables e-commerce businesses to provide personalized ads and email to users who have previously visited a retailer’s site. To provide this service, Criteo must log and process extremely large amounts of data.

The technological revolution is here. It’s sweeping the nation, and Seattle is no exception to the overwhelming takeover of startups, developers, engineers and entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams in fulfilling careers in healthcare, government, education, travel, and more. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce just released a study ranking and evaluating how 25 U.S.

On Tuesday, May 17th, I co-presented a live webinar covering a showcase of some of the latest Chef integrations with AWS. You can watch the recording below. Most of the components we presented have been available to you in the Chef framework for quite some time.

I’d like to announce that Graylog2 has been badged in the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. If you don’t know the Chef Partner Cookbook Program is a collaboration between both Chef and the vendor to help validate cookbooks in our public supermarket. Graylog centralizes and aggregates your log files for maximum visibility.

Culture is vital in building any successful business — it impacts employee retention, performance and revenue. Given culture’s significance, it’s surprising how often it is relegated to an initiative, usually driven by HR and given a catchy title to imply inclusiveness, great perks or diversity. There is no denying these initiatives can be important. But in our industry, culture is our product.

As automation lightens the load on IT operations personnel, and the DevOps cultural shift brings dev and ops together, people from managers to sys admins may be worrying about their jobs. Furthermore, as DevOps takes hold, other roles in the organization are set to transform.

Our friends (and certified partners) at DualSpark (a Datapipe company) do tremendous work providing solutions for moving to, and getting the most from, AWS. Recently the team at VSCO Artifact Uprising (looking to turn your Instagram feed into a gorgeous lookbook?

As previously announced we’ve disabled our PackageCloud APT/YUM repositories for the current and stable release channels effective today. Please migrate to the equivalent packages.chef.io repository as documented on docs.chef.io. The latest versions of the apt-chef or yum-chef cookbooks will automate this repo configuration for you.