There are many ways to use Chef and not all of them have to be related to your day job. If you’re a fan of Minecraft you can use Chef to create a Minecraft server on Digital Ocean.

Ohai Chefs, We are pleased to announce that Chef Analytics 1.1.6 is now available. This is a bug fix release; details of the issues resolved are provided below. Fixes Data was not appearing in the nodes view for organizations having more than 25 nodes. Data was not appearing in the nodes view when switching organizations.

Push 2.0 alpha is out This has all of the major features planned for 2.0, including: Encryption Output capture Environment control Server Sent Event (SSE) feeds This is an alpha release, so there will be bugs. Please file issues as you find them against Chef Push Issues. Push 2.

Chef and AWS Meet the Rising Demand for DevOps Training in the UK LONDON – Aug. 20, 2015 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced it is bringing its DevOps expertise to the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Pop-up Loft in London. The AWS Pop-up Loft will open on Sept.

VMworld 2015 kicks of in San Francisco, CA, on August 31, and your #cheffriends will be out in force. Visit us at booth 2523 to talk Chef, automation, DevOps, and, of course, share some #hugops. We’re also participating in a number of presentations, including: DevOps in the Virtualized World – Who are the Players?

Manage 1.21.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release fixes a bug with password resets returning a 500 (see the issue here) that was introduced in Manage 1.19.0.

If you watched the ChefConf keynote, attended last years’ community summits, or follow our open source mailing lists, you’ve probably heard about Policyfiles.

JustGiving is the world’s largest fundraising platform. In the last twelve months, JustGiving has helped tens of millions of people raise over $700,000,000 dollars. This post describes how JustGiving uses Chef and DevOps to help manage its infrastructure and create a flexible, cooperative work environment.

Hola Chefs!  ChefDK 0.7.0 is now out and ready for consumption at our downloads page.  We have numerous features, updates and bug fixes for all of you.  To highlight, we have: * a new environment variable `CHEFDK_HOME` that points to cookbook and gem caches. * the latest patched SSL CA certificate bundle.