Leader in Online Media Automates Services Management and Deployment Across Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, Achieving Greater Development Velocity SEATTLE – July 6, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced MSN is using the Chef IT automation platform to configure and deploy applications throughout its large-scale Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

AWS joins ChefConf 2016 as a platinum sponsor and we couldn’t be happier. Over and over customers tell us AWS is a strategic part of their infrastructure strategy. This year at ChefConf we have a wide variety of Chef content that is aimed at AWS users and folks interested in exploring AWS.

I’d like to announce that DNSimple is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains.

We’re very pleased to announce that Chef Server HA is now available in full release.

We’re happy to announce that Sensu is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. Sensu is an open-source, cloud-aware, monitoring framework that allows organizations to compose comprehensive monitoring & telemetry solutions that meet their unique business requirements. Known as a monitoring router, you can create dynamic scalable alerts and views into your systems.

Today I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Chef Server 12.7.0 for IBM Power Systems on Linux. This marks the first time Chef Server will be generally available (GA) for Ubuntu 14.04 (little endian) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (big endian and little endian).

DevOps is meant to be collaborative. It’s about shared experiences — and so is ChefConf. Agile development practices teach us the technique of pair programing, so it only makes sense to extend that philosophy to pair conference attending.

Bank Hapoalim is Israel’s largest bank and was named by The Banker magazine as Bank of the Year in Israel for 2015. The bank’s Unix and Linux team has been using Chef for only about five months and they have made enormous progress automating their infrastructure in a highly secure environment.

On June 8th, Irving Popovetsky, Principal Customer Architect and Stephen Delano, Principal Engineer, presented a live webinar, “Understanding the Chef Server.” Watch the recording below for an overview of how it’s designed, how it’s packaged, and general advice on operating the Chef server at scale (monitoring, troubleshooting, etc).