We’re excited to announce that ChefDK 0.3.0 is now released. You can get it from our download page now.Today’s release contains a preview release of the new Policyfile feature. This is a significant milestone on our journey to improve the way you develop and distribute Chef code to manage your infrastructure.

When talking about the management of complex systems, orchestration is always a hot topic. This is because orchestration is often seen as the easiest way to represent and model complex systems, as well as provide a path to delivering complex systems. Most often orchestration is represented through a topology model.

A couple weeks ago we teamed with our friends at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the reopening of the AWS Pop-Up Loft. The Loft offers us a unique opportunity to connect with and support any and everyone looking to make the most of Chef and AWS.

The Bourne Shell – fifth film in the trilogy. Jason Bourne tries to patch servers against obscure bug. No fights or car chases. Avoid. — Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) September 27, 2014 To nobody’s delight and amusement, this has been the year of critical, remotely-exploitable security vulnerabilities.

Sander van Harmelen is a mission-critical engineer at Schuberg Philis, where he helps build and maintain business-critical systems with 100% uptime. With expertise in both coding and operations, he literally lives DevOps and is an epic Chef contributor. In this guest post, Sander introduces us to a new open source Chef tool – Chef-Guard.

Chef analytics 1.0.3 is a bug-fix release to allow you to use your own SSL certificates.

Today we released a refresh to the Learn Chef website. Here are some of the top highlights: Tracks for Windows Server and Ubuntu, along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) & CentOS to help you learn in the server environment you’re most familiar with.

We’ve verified that for Windows platforms only, the Chef Client, Chef DK, and Push Jobs Client packages contain versions of the bash command interpreter that are affected by CVE-2014-6271, the “ShellShock” advisory.

Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving my talk “DevOps Against Inhumanity” at the first-ever DevOpsDays Toronto. Toronto’s actually my hometown, so it was fun to return and see what’s changed, both in technology and with the city. What is “DevOps Against Inhumanity?