ChefConf is officially 3 weeks away! In the past few weeks we’ve been spotlighting the many engaging sessions, workshops, and sponsors taking place March 31 – April 2. But, as any of you who attended last year know, ChefConf is also straight up fun. And lots of it.

Can Dev-”Sec”-Ops really exist? On Thursday, March 19 we’re partnering with Alert Logic to present a must-attend webinar for anyone wanting to debate how to adopt a continuous delivery model to security.

Ohai Chef, We’ve just released Chef Client 12.1.1. This release includes a fixes for regressions reported from the Chef Client 12.1.0 release.

On March 19th we’re excited to bring together Microsoft and Chef to dig into the technical specifics outlined in our recent joint partnership announcement. Michael Ducy (@mfdii) and Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) of Chef will be joined by Kundana Palagiri (@KundanaP) of Microsoft to dig into what is means to use Chef as the DevOps platform with Microsoft Azure.

ChefConf 2015 is just three weeks away! By now you’ve taken a look at the diverse selection of sessions and workshops scheduled for March 31-April 2 in Santa Clara. And, of course, you’ve already registered, right? So, what else is going down at the show? The ChefConf Community Summit!

In January we released Chef analytics 1.1 which added some great new features including * a flexible rules engine for notifications * inline diffs in the actions view * a new webhook notification destination At the time of the release, Chef analytics relied upon features only available in Chef Server 12.

We believe that diversity is critical in building a healthy community. One of our core goals is to help address the lack of diversity in attendees at ChefConf. What do we mean by diversity? Ashe Dryden wrote up an excellent blog post following a series of hangouts she held on diversity.

Manage 1.11.1 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes a fix for a regression where “localhost” would be used in the Starter Kit instead of the correct Chef server URL. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

This is a guest post by Phil Dibowitz, Production Engineer at Facebook At the Chef Community Summit this year, as with all Summits, there was a Hack Day. My hack project was to extend Chef’s `package` resource to be able to handle multiple packages at once. Why?