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Guest Post: Introducing Chef-Guard
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 released
Chef analytics 1.0.3 is a bug-fix release to allow you to use your own SSL certificates.
Learn Chef – now with tracks for Windows Server and Ubuntu!
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.
Security response: bash on Windows Chef Client, Chef DK, and Push Jobs Client packages (CVE-2014-6271)
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.
DevOps Against Inhumanity: Uniting To Put Technology First
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?
Security Releases: Omnibus 2.0.2 and 3.2.2 (insecure file ownership in Omnibus-built Debian and Ubuntu packages)
Ohai everyone, We have released Omnibus 2.0.2 and Omnibus 3.2.2 to address an issue in which the contents of Omnibus-built Debian and Ubuntu packages are being installed with an arbitrary non-root UID and GID.
Security Releases: Chef Server and Premium Features (insecure file ownership)
Today we are announcing security releases of all supported versions of the Chef Server, Enterprise Chef, and Chef Software-built premium features. These releases address package ownership issues on Debian-based platforms that result in Omnibus-built packages installing with contents owned by UID and GID 999 or 1001.
Security Releases: Chef Client and Related Products (insecure file ownership)
Today we are announcing security releases of all supported versions of the Chef Client, ChefDK, Chef Container and the Push Jobs client. These releases address package ownership issues on Debian-based platforms. Platforms Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Description Chef products installed from Debian-style .
Chef! Where is my Ubuntu 14.04 service support?
So you’ve decided to update or use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. You’ve probably started leveraging Chef in some awesome way. The problem is, you put in a nice little service Resource and see something like: Chef::Exceptions::Exec \———————- /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
