Culture is vital in building any successful business — it impacts employee retention, performance and revenue. Given culture’s significance, it’s surprising how often it is relegated to an initiative, usually driven by HR and given a catchy title to imply inclusiveness, great perks or diversity. There is no denying these initiatives can be important. But in our industry, culture is our product.

As automation lightens the load on IT operations personnel, and the DevOps cultural shift brings dev and ops together, people from managers to sys admins may be worrying about their jobs. Furthermore, as DevOps takes hold, other roles in the organization are set to transform.

Our friends (and certified partners) at DualSpark (a Datapipe company) do tremendous work providing solutions for moving to, and getting the most from, AWS. Recently the team at VSCO Artifact Uprising (looking to turn your Instagram feed into a gorgeous lookbook?

As previously announced we’ve disabled our PackageCloud APT/YUM repositories for the current and stable release channels effective today. Please migrate to the equivalent packages.chef.io repository as documented on docs.chef.io. The latest versions of the apt-chef or yum-chef cookbooks will automate this repo configuration for you.

DevOps is permeating the enterprise. And as we at Chef have often espoused, it’s both a technical and professional movement. At the helm of the professional side are careers – DevOps changes career paths. It alters job functions. While DevOps has been cited as one of the most lucrative technical professions – Dice.

We want to make you aware of two changes that will affect Chef products going forward: All Chef products will be making their license file and the license files of all included software easier to find.

On April 14th, I presented a live webinar on Automating Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) with Chef. Automating PowerShell DSC with Chef makes it safer and easier to manage hundreds or thousands of servers. Watch the recording below to learn how you can bring order to chaotic environments by using Chef and DSC together.

Our friends at AWS published a great blog this week about working with Chef, Lambda and CloudWatch. We’re delighted to share Josh’s best practices around leveraging AWS Services like Lambda and CloudWatch to get the most out of Chef on AWS. Originally posted here: https://aws.amazon.

Chef Compliance 1.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a major release update which is recommended for all users of Chef Compliance.  We enhanced capabilities for Chef Compliance to enable automated management of compliance policies that are based on the broadly used Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.