We will be hosting the Chef Community Summit on October 14 and 15 in Seattle, Washington and hope to see you there. This marks the fifth year for the Chef Community Summit and it has proven to be one of the most engaging events of the year for the Chef Community.

The Velocity Conference holds a special place in the hearts of Awesome Chefs everywhere. For many of us, DevOps was born with John Allspaw and Paul Hammond’s 10+ Deploys Per Day at Velocity 2009.

ChefConf 2015 was awesome for so many reasons, including our first ever Diversity Scholarship program, designed to give those underrepresented in the Chef Community an opportunity to take part in the conference with free passes.

We’re very excited to announce we are once again supporting our friends at AWS in bringing the wildly popular AWS Pop-up Loft to New York.

As you may be aware, I have been working on a Chef audit-mode cookbook that implements the CIS Benchmarks. I recently added coverage for Ubuntu 14.04.

I recently gave a webinar on Chef Supermarket. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: Users learned how to make full use of Chef Supermarket and best practices for both using cookbooks from Chef Supermarket and uploading cookbooks to Chef Supermarket. What is Supermarket?

Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.6.0, which you can find on our downloads page. This release has three changes from ChefDK 0.5.1: New chef provision command. Berkshelf is upgraded to 3.2.4 Kitchen Vagrant is upgraded to 0.18.

Manage 1.13.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release adds a `session_timeout` setting that lets you force users’ sessions to end after a specified number of minutes. See the manage.rb documentation for all available settings. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

Last week we spent a week in Chicago at Microsoft’s biggest user event.  The ‘new’ Microsoft came through loud and clear with a message rooted in multi-platform, open source, and DevOps.