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This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. It actually started a bit over seven years ago. I saw the writing on the wall at IBM; my job was soon to be outsourced.

Joshua Timberman
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This post originally appeared at https://coderanger.net/chef-governance/ In a way this is a follow-up to my earlier post about the state of community involvement in Chef.

Noah Kantrowitz
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A Chef-specific Stack Exchange has been proposed. Follow the proposal, ask a few questions, and read this post for more background. At the Chef Community Summit in Seattle, we discussed how to make the new user experience for Chef users better.

James FitzGibbon
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Intro The ChefDK is intended to “contain everything you need to start using Chef” and greatly ease the Developer Workstation setup process. Despite the apparent similarities to the Chef Omnibus package, ChefDK users have found a number of issues and inconsistencies, particularly on Windows.

Irving Popovetsky
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Ohai chefs, We are super excited to announce the availability of the first Chef Client 12.0.0 Release Candidate that accompanies the recently released Chef Server 12 Release Candidate.

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AWS re:Invent is just around the corner and all of us here at Chef are pretty fired up.  The show is sold out, so hopefully you were able to snag tickets.

George Miranda
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Hello Chefs, We’re pleased to announce the release of Enterprise Chef Server 11.2.5. What’s New Chef Client 12 support. As you may have heard Chef Client 12 is coming soon.  Since Chef Client 12 is API compatible with Enterprise Chef Server 11, we’ve updated the server to accept the new client.

jmink
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Hi Chefs, We've released ChefDK 0.3.2. This release fixes a handful of issues with the SSL configuration in ChefDK. Most importantly, we've rolled back the version of the CA Certificate bundle included in ChefDK.

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A self-contained Chef-managed infrastructure has never been easier to configure. The omnibus installers include all the software Chef needs to run on your clients. With a few knife configuration substitutions, or custom bootstrap templates, you are completely in charge of how and where your nodes obtain their chef-client software.

Mandi Walls