This is a guest post by Marco Meinardi from our friends at Flexiant. Let’s say you need to deliver and operate an application in the cloud, at scale and velocity. Chef is of course essential for providing the automation that enables you to do this.

ChefConf 2015 has officially wrapped up.  This year’s conference was chock full of exciting announcements, astute content, good times, and that special brand of unique Chef community camaraderie.  I have to admit, I’m having ChefConf withdrawals. My first day working at Chef was the day our very first ChefConf got underway.

This is a guest post from Lori Mac Vittie, Sr Product Manager, Emerging Technologies at F5. Operationalizing the network continues to be a driving force behind DevOps and SDN.

This is a guest blog from Rodrigo Flores, managing director, Accenture Cloud Platform. Accenture joined Chef today in our new Partner Certification Program. As a community, cloud developers are not prone to follow specific directions to deliver an assignment.

This is a guest post from Robert Haynes, Marketing Solutions Architect at F5. It originally appeared on F5’s DevCentral site on March 30, 2015. Go here to read more about F5 and Chef’s work together. Chef turns infrastructure into code. It also gives the casual blog writer a terrible temptation to descend into pun-filled drivel.

This is a guest post by Sahir Azam, Director of Product Management @ Sumo Logic. Fellow Chef enthusiasts, we’re excited to lift the covers off some of the joint work between Chef and Sumo Logic! Sumo Logic is a SaaS machine-data analytics platform that helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and secure your mission-critical applications.

Company Extends Chef IT Automation Platform with Proven DevOps Workflow for Managing Change in Enterprise IT; Now Available through Invitation Program SEATTLE and SANTA CLARA, Calif.

Incremental Recurring Revenue Grows 192 Percent and Average Revenue Per New Customer Increases More Than 200 Percent Year-Over-Year in Q4 2014; ChefConf 2015 Convenes Thousands of Developers and IT Leaders; Company Introduces New Flagship Product; Announces DevOps Practice; Launches New Partner Certification Program for Growing Ecosystem SEATTLE and SANTA CLARA, Calif.

Chef Adds Support for Canonical’s Machine-As-A-Service, Enabling Easy, Automated Deployment of Bare Metal Resources in the Data Center and the Cloud