Overview Now is a great time to start thinking about deploying a new Chef Server.

Habitat is an open-source project by Chef that moves an application’s configuration, management, and behavior to the application itself, not the infrastructure that the application runs on. Habitat provides simple and consistent ways to deploy and manage cloud-native applications. In addition to the awesome tutorials on www.habitat.

GE Digital has undertaken an ambitious effort to make possible a new generation of cloud-native industrial applications. With Predix, GE’s industrial cloud platform, GE business units and industrial companies can build and run applications to deal with all sorts of substantial machinery, ranging from power generation equipment to airplane engines to locomotives.

Today we are delighted to be recognized in the Leaders category of new ‘The Forrester Wave™: Configuration Management Software for Infrastructure Automation, Q4 2017’ report. To take a detailed look at the report, you can grab a copy from this link – enjoy the read!

Editors note: One thing that we seek to emphasize with Habitat is choice. Choose your language scaffolding, package your app, and then choose your platform for deployment. In order to provide our users with as many options as possible, we partner with experts on various platforms such as Stark & Wayne for Cloud Foundry support.

One of the most useful features of Habitat is Scaffolding – these allow you to package your application with Habitat with very minimal code. They enable you to very rapidly (within minutes) package an application and export it to whatever format you need.

Last week the Chef Community hosted two summits in the US. Monday and Tuesday in Seattle, Thursday and Friday in New York. These Summits both included a day of open space discussions with topics proposed and selected by the participants and a day of hacking on various projects.

Today, the Habitat team is thrilled to announce the availability of Habitat Builder for all projects and origins. Habitat enables you to build, deploy, and manage your application, and automate the relationship between those lifecycle events to keep your application healthy, secure, and up to date. To get started with Habitat, you write a plan.

We are excited to announce a new integration between Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Chef. For the ever increasing number of Chef customers using GCP, these GCP specific cookbooks are consistent, cohesive and comprehensive. They enable Chef practitioners to quickly, declare and request resources from GCP.