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Extending InSpec Resources: Core Resource Inheritance
A developer’s guide to extending Chef InSpec through Ruby inheritance of core resources to re-use the core functionality in custom resources.
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Join us for The Hallway Track
A new year is upon us, and with it comes a lot of new changes from the Chef team. First, you may have noticed that we’ve officially updated our branding to Progress Chef. Also, you’re about to witness a shift in how we stream.
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Chef Automate and Infra Server Critical Update for AWS RDS January 2022
A critical update for Chef Automate was released on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, and should be applied by Monday, January 17, 2022, for any customers using Chef Automate in conjunction with AWS RDS to ensure service is not disrupted.
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Hosted Chef Scheduled Maintenance and Downtime January 6, 2022
Hosted Chef, your gateway to managing Chef infrastructure in the cloud, is set to receive an upgrade to its database. In order to facilitate this upgrade, we will be migrating all content to a new version of PostgreSQL. We will also be upgrading the application to Chef Infra server 14.10.
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Is Chef vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228 (Log4j)?
On December 9, 2021 Progress Software was made aware of a critical vulnerability in a common Java logging library call Log4j. Links to additional resources describing the vulnerability and its origin are included at the end of this post.
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Fleet Automation for Windows, Linux and Mac Systems with Chef
Take control of your heterogeneous endpoint configurations through Chef Desktop
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A new look for Progress Chef
Today we’re announcing new branding for Chef and all our products, and we wanted to take a second to introduce the new look and feel.
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The Projects that Wowed our Automate for Good Hackathon Judges
Now that we have wrapped up our hackathon and announced our winners, we thought it would be fun to dive into some of the details of the winning projects and share them with you. Again, these ideas were awesome. If you got a chance to tune into our live stream on Twitch or YouTube yesterday, you know that one of the projects is directly in line with a feature on the Chef Infra Client product roadmap. How cool!