We are delighted to announce the general availability of Chef Automate 2, a major upgrade to our continuous automation platform. Chef Automate 2 is the culmination of a nine month re-architecture initiative to improve performance, scale and responsiveness.

Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 3.0. With this release, you can detect and correct issues across more platforms faster than ever before with the addition of Chef 14 and InSpec 2.

Introduction One of the frequent requests that we have had since we introduced public Habitat Builder last year has been to allow Habitat users to have the same workflow behind the firewall in their private cloud- and on-premises infrastructure.

Bringing your companies platform to the cloud with the goal of developing software with speed requires a solid strategy and key partner integration. Relativity, an e-discovery platform for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects, realized together with Microsoft Azure, Chef Automate, and 10th Magnitude, this could be a reality.

We’re excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Learn Chef Rally! It’s been a great year for learning Chef, and as part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing a limited edition badge at ChefConf next week. I’m not going to show it to you today, but imagine a magical feline celebrating, and you are getting close.

The 0.56.0 release of Habitat brings with it one of the largest changes to the Supervisor that we’ve ever made. We’d like to share with you what these changes are, why we needed to make them, and what steps you as a Supervisor user need to take to deal with these changes.

ChefConf 2018 is coming up quickly (May 23-25 in Chicago, IL): one of the key themes of this year’s conference is support for the major cloud platforms from AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Today, I’ll highlight some of the sessions for AWS-focused organizations.

We’re excited to attend Microsoft’s Build 2018 conference in Seattle this week. Build is Microsoft’s premier developer event, where the most innovative minds in tech meet under one roof to get inspired, create tomorrow, and code the future.

We recently added support in Habitat Builder for Azure Container Registry (ACR). With this integration you can export to Azure Container Registry as part of your build job and use those containers inside AKS.