One of the many reasons to attend ChefConf 2019 is the lineup of learning opportunities that will be available to improve your knowledge of Infrastructure, Compliance and Application Automation. In addition to the dozens of breakout sessions, we’re offering 11 full-day workshops at a crazy, low price with topics for all experience levels.

An article was shared yesterday detailing a runC vulnerability that affects Docker and Kubernetes where a malicious container can overwrite a host system’s runC binary, thus allowing root-level code execution on the host. This is an operations nightmare and it made me think of how Chef Habitat can help in these situations.

The days where we wondered whether or not our organization would choose to migrate workloads to the cloud are long behind us. Today the question is not if we’ll move these workloads, but how many, and how quickly we can do so.

Dear Members of the Chef Community, Now that the buzz from closing out 2018 and Chef Rally (our annual all company kick-off) has died down, I wanted to share a quick update on Chef, along with a glimpse into the amazing opportunity that lies ahead for the company and our community. First of all, 2018.

The 0.74.0 release introduces a new hook to package authors: the install hook. The install hook runs when a package is first installed. This hook is unique in that it runs outside of a service or census context.

The truth about attending “corporate” events is that there needs to be a way to justify  WHY you need to be there. Some reasons you can use are the amazing workshops and breakout sessions that will give you new tools and knowledge to drive the team and business forward.

Hello, friendly Habicats! We will be refreshing the Base Plans of Core Plans on Tuesday, January 29th. Let’s go over what this means for us and, more important, what it means for you. Base Plans 101 Currently, there are about 600 Habitat plans under the Core Origin on Builder.

In case you haven’t already been exposed to the awesomeness of ChefConf, there are a couple key things to expect: learning, networking, and, most importantly of all, FUN!

Any time there is a televised sporting event in Seattle you can be certain that you will see someone throwing a fish, you will hear about coffee, they will show you the Space Needle, and they will go to commercial playing hits by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or Soundgarden. And we love it.