The Chef Community delivers yet again. John Ewart, a system architect, software developer, and lecturer based in California, recently published, “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” which can be purchased here.

Our good friends at Adobe have been awesome about providing technical insight into their use of Chef in the past. Yesterday, their lead security strategist Peleus Uhley, continued this trend with a very informative blog detailing Chef-automated security testing in Adobe’s private cloud infrastructure.

Our friends at Riot Games have been awesome enough to tell their story at a number of Chef events, and even took us to school in a “Riot Rumble” here at Chef HQ last year. So it’s especially delightful to see Riot profiled in the Harvard Business Review.

We’re excited to announce the release of knife-hp  0.4.0, a major update to the plugin refactored to support the HP Helion Public Cloud version 13.5 release. HP’s API has changed to support a number of new OpenStack features (with many more to come), so the usage of the plugin has changed quite a bit.

This article is cross-posted from https://sethvargo.com/berkshelf-workflow/. There are only two fundamental assumptions for working with Berkshelf: 1. Each cookbook is a uniquely packaged and versioned artifact 2.

Chef had a significant presence at Microsoft TechEd two weeks ago. TechEd is Microsoft’s annual user conference with 15,000 attendees (yup, you read that right — so about 15x the size of ChefConf).

Justin Arbuckle Brings More Than 20 Years of Experience in Transforming Enterprise IT for Speed and Scale to Chef  Leading UK-Based IT Recruitment Firm Reports Chef is Top 10 IT ‘Skill on the Rise’ SEATTLE – May 27, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that Justin Arbuckle will join the […]

On June 4th with our partner 10th Magnitude, we are launching a technical webinar focused on how Chef is automating and accelerating Azure deployments.

The good folks over at CloudBees have been working with us over the past few months on a pretty cool project – enhancing Jenkins traceability. The enhancement gives developer and operations personnel the ability to use Jenkins for the first time to trace application code changes from development through to deployment, and into production.