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“Enjoy the Work”: Finding the work/life balance
Recently MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wrote a compelling and personal blog about why he was stepping down as the company’s CEO.
Windows Automation Testing w/Chef by @mwrockx
Our friend Matt Wrock, a software engineer at CenturyLink Cloud, recently wrote a tremendous “how to” blog on Windows automation testing using Chef, Vagrant, and Test Kitchen. Matt writes: I work for CenturyLink Cloud and infrastructure automation is front and center to our business.
OpenSSL security advisory response: 6 Aug 2014
Chef Software has reviewed the following security advisory and does not believe that this represents a critical security risk to our users. OpenSSL Security Advisory The next planned release of all affected products will include an updated OpenSSL version; we will not have an exploit-specific release.
Management Console Enterprise Chef Add-on 1.5.4 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Management Console for Enterprise Chef 11, 1.5.4. Please contact support@getchef.com for details on obtaining this release.
New Features on the Supermarket
The Supermarket keeps getting better. In addition to the everyday improvements that we are pushing out all the time, we enabled two big features last week.
Cookbook Hacking: Tomcat
The tomcat cookbook has seen a lot of interest recently and has a relatively large number of pull requests open against it. We want to pare down that number and give the community a chance to help steer the direction of the cookbook.
Release: Chef Client 11.14.2
Ohai Chefs, Today we have released 11.14.2 of Chef Client. We found a regression while releasing 11.14.0 that was significant enough that we cancelled the release and fixed the bug.
Curry Bot Label Issues – Public Postmortem Meeting
Earlier today we had an issue where Curry Bot added and removed the “Signed CLA” label from a number of pull requests every few seconds causing disruption to workflow and even locking users out of at least one pull request.
Getting Ready for Chef + PowerShell DSC
Today we’d like to share the Supermarket debut of the PowerShell DSC cookbook for Chef, an early preview of Chef integration with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) on Windows. This cookbook allows you to author recipes using any DSC resources available on your system, seamlessly surfacing them as Chef resources you can use in your cookbooks.
