Chef was born in the open source community and has always had a foundation in open source. As the company, community, and framework have grown, so has the commitment to our community.

Chef was designed from the outset to have a very open structure, including open design, open contribution, and consistent use of tools across the project.

We’re pleased to announce the release of ChefDK 0.9 today, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release is primarily to upgrade the embedded version of Chef Client to 12.5, which is being released today. You can read about the new features in Chef Client 12.5 in a companion blog post.

We’re very excited to announce the release of Chef Client 12.5, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release has several important new features that we’d like to highlight, so read on for more details. New custom resource model One of the greatest things about Chef is its easy extensibility.

Leading Media Company Automates Full Stack to Enable Continuous Delivery; Presents Results at AWS re:Invent 2015 Chef Achieves New AWS Partner Network DevOps Competency and Advanced Partner Status in APN SEATTLE and LAS VEGAS – October 6, 2015 – Chef, a leader in automation for DevOps, today announced Gannett, a leading media company and publisher […]

On Friday, October 2nd, 2015, the dependency API hosted on Supermarket was intermittently returning invalid JSON responses. This caused Berkshelf 2 clients to error when talking to the dependency API. We are sorry that these issues caused problems for members of our community.

On Wednesday, September 30th, software engineer Joshua Timberman presented a webinar on Chef Policies, a new feature of Chef. Policies combine the best parts of roles, environments, and client-side dependency resolvers such as Berkshelf into a single, easy-to-use workflow.

UPDATE (9/28/2015): The build for Manage 2.0.0 has been pulled after bugs were reported. We are quickly working on fixing the issue and will notify you when the new build is complete via our blog. Manage 2.0.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release gets a major version bump from 1.21.1 to 2.0.

Ohai Chefs! Time for a shiny new ChefDK release :) ChefDK 0.8.0 is now available at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ on OS/X (including OS X 10.11, “El Capitan”), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows, Ubuntu and Debian!