On Friday, February 9, Chef held our first Community Summit in Berlin at the Betahaus coworking space. Berlin has a thriving startup culture and is home to some of our InSpec teammates as well as a number of #cheffriends at AWS who work on OpsWorks for Chef Automate.

As we previously announced, April 2018 will mark two important milestones for Chef Client and ChefDK: Chef Client 14 and ChefDK 3 will be released near the beginning of April. This represent the fastest and easiest-to-use versions of Chef to date. Chef Client 12 and ChefDK 1 will become end-of-life on April 30, 2018.

2018 marked the fifth anniversary of the CfgMgmtCamp conference, and for this milestone, the organizers decided to invite the luminaries of configuration management back to Gent, Belgium for a reunion.

Last week Chef announced the February release of Chef Automate. This marks the GA release of the compliance scanner with job scheduling, and adds features to make analysis easier, such as date-range search.

By providing organizations with the ability to launch and scale environments on-demand, the cloud has changed how we develop applications and deploy infrastructure, allowing us to iterate faster than previously imaginable. It’s no surprise, then, that cloud migrations have become a hot topic in our industry.

I’m delighted to announce that Lenovo is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the Lenovo CNOS Cookbook. Lenovo CNOS cookbook The Lenovo CNOS cookbook provides a set of recipes and resources for managing Lenovo switches. The cookbook provides resources to upload images, upload/download configurations, and VLAN provisioning.

With the 0.53.0 release of Habitat, we’re happy to announce that users can now run their Habitat-exported Docker containers on the OpenShift platform!

At ChefConf 2018 there will be many opportunities to improve your knowledge of Chef, Habitat, and InSpec. In addition to more than 30 breakout sessions, we’re offering 10 full-day workshops with topics for all experience levels. You’ll also have an opportunity to prove your skills through certification exams.

Most successful organizations pursue continuous automation in three stages: detect, correct, and automate. Our very own Nick Rycar recently covered this framework at length in both a blog post and webinar. In case you missed it, adopting the DCA frameworks means: Detecting where your systems deviate from your standards.