Ohai Chefs, One of the exciting features in Chef Analytics 1.1.2 that is the ability to link Chef Analytics to Splunk. This features give you the ability to extract meaningful insights about your Chef infrastructure if you are using Splunk.

Starting with the Chef 12.2.0 Client there is no longer any need to use the validation key to provision new chef nodes with knife. Furthermore, all that needs to be done to take advantage of this feature is to delete your validation keys and optionally remove the validator configuration from your knife.rb file.

ChefConf 2015 welcomed 1500 attendees and 42 sponsors over our four day event.

For those of you who would like to read Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey in its entirety, here are the blog posts.

This is the sixth and final entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here, the second entry here, the third entry here, the fourth entry here, and the fifth entry here. Continue below for part six.

On Thursday, March 26th Hosted Chef experienced a degradation in service where logging into oc-id, Hosted Chef’s identify service, periodically failed. This failure meant that it was difficult to login into Supermarket, Hosted Chef’s profile page, and oc-id itself, since each of these systems rely on oc-id for their authentication tokens.

Today we’ve released an initial version of audit-cis. This is an “audit mode only” cookbook that runs on a node to check for compliance with The Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark for a specific platform. This release targets CentOS 7, CIS Benchmark version 1.0.0.

This is a repost of a blog published today by our friends at Microsoft, including Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect, Andrew Mason, Principal PM Manager, and Alan Back, Principal SWE Manager, who we have been working with extensively to ensure a best-in-class Windows experience with Chef. You can read the original post here.

This post originally appeared on Medium. ChefConf 2015 is a wrap, and most of the community has returned home. For those of you not familiar with the conference, it’s the gathering of hundreds of Chef community members.