Chef Compliance 0.15.13 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance.

New Chef Delivery Product Enhancements Come as Company’s Annual Recurring Revenue Grows 94 Percent Year-over-Year in 2015 and Chef Nears 1,000 Customers SEATTLE – March 10, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today introduced Dependency Management, a new feature of its Chef Delivery product, that enables faster and safer developer collaboration by […]

Ohai Chefs!  We are delighted to announce the release of some exciting new features in Chef Delivery. Delivery now supports native management of runtime dependencies. After declaring dependencies in your project’s config.json file, the dependency relationships are visible in the GUI.

Supermarket 2.4.2 is now available. This release contains a bug fix and security updates. Supermarket version 2.4.2 is a recommended update for all users running their own instances of Supermarket. Packages are available in the stable repository.

Manage 2.2.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. Manage 2.2.0 is a security release to address a number of CVEs in OpenSSL, curl, Rails and Redis. It is recommended that all users of the Chef Management Console upgrade. The full change log is available here: https://manage.chef.

UPDATE: We’ve identified a bug that requires the users to login using the Full name previously provided during the `/#/setup` mode. We are going to release a new package to rectify this soon. Chef Compliance 0.15.2 is now available from the Chef downloads site.

Benoît Créau is a UNIX systems engineer and IBM Champion for Power Systems. He’s currently employed at a large bank and he’s an active blogger and speaker. Benoît has posted several presentations and blog posts on how to use Power Systems more effectively and how to manage Power System environments with Chef.

On February 24th I presented a live webinar on Test Driven Cookbook Development. Watch the recording below to hear me explain what unit and integration tests are and how they apply to the domain of cookbook development. You’ll see me demonstrate how to build cookbooks by using a test-driven approach.

On March 1, 2016, the OpenSSL team released a new high severity security advisory. Simultaneously, the OpenSSL team also made available new versions of the OpenSSL code containing fixes for the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.