We are looking forward to resuming our Chef Fundamentals Webinar Series this Thursday at 10am PT with Module 4: Understanding the chef-client run and using knife to learn about your Infrastructure.

November brings with it a bunch of opportunities to meet up with your fellow Chefs.

Hey Chefs, Today is an exciting day. We are announcing Chef Client 11.8.0 & Ohai 6.20.0. Here are the biggest highlights of these releases: Chef Client Local Mode Chef Client now has a local mode in which it can run 100% locally using a chef repository.

SSL and Chef As Chef has grown up, we've found that we've needed to revisit some decisions we made when Chef was an unruly upstart open source project. One such decision is how Chef handles HTTPS connections by default. Currently, Chef defaults to not verifying certificates when it makes HTTPS connections.

In Chef 11.8, we’re excited to introduce local mode with `chef-client -z`.

Our close friends at CustomInk make it easy for anyone to create customized T-shirts, sweatshirts, and much more online. (Sidenote: We work with them to make all our Opscode and Chef T-Shirts). CustomInk employs proprietary, primarily Ruby-based software applications running on both virtualized and cloud servers to manage everything from its website to its printers.

Thanks to everyone who turned out for the second installment of our Chef Fundamentals Webinar Series yesterday! If you were unable to attend and would like to catch up on the series, you can find recordings of each prior module at #learnchef.opscode.

Question: What are Gene Kim (author of “The Phoenix Project”), Jez Humble (DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pioneer), Catherine Courage (VP of Customer Experience at Citrix), John Esser (Director Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com), and Adrian Cockcroft (Director of Architecture for Cloud Systems @ Netflix) all doing next Friday, 11/1?

Next Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am Pacific Time, we’ve joined with our friends at PaddyPower, Cloudify, and CloudStack to host a sweet podcast addressing common obstacles in the journey to DevOps.