It’s very common these days to leave part, or even your whole farm, on an air gapped environment. It will definitely make it harder for malicious visitors to gain unauthorized access, but you’ll have some other things to worry about regarding the management of that infrastructure.

Today, we are pleased to announce the first release of Chef Integration for Visual Studio Team Services, released to the Visual Studio Marketplace.

I’m delighted to announce that Rocket.Chat is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the Rocket.Chat Cookbook. Rocket.Chat Cookbook The Rocket.Chat Cookbook is designed as a one-stop shop to get Rocket.Chat up and running. Run the main recipe, run chef-client, and boom, you have the base install ready to go.

We are living in a world of constant change: companies of all sizes and in all industries are tasked with being a disruptor or being disrupted. Slow-moving enterprises which rely only on legacy technology are falling behind their competitors.

This is a guest post by Michael Hüttermann. Michael is an expert in Continuous Delivery, DevOps and SCM/ALM. More information about him at http://huettermann.net, or follow him on Twitter: @huettermann.

Development blames Ops, Ops blames Development. Following Agile, Lean, and DevOps principles lowers the friction between the functions of these groups. But it takes more to fix the underlying tension that pits these groups against one another. Fix that tension by redefining the role of shared IT organizations into groups focused on developer services.

Enterprises today have to adapt to changing needs in application and infrastructure management – and Chef Automate helps empower organizations to embrace modern software practices such as DevOps and continuous delivery to build, deploy and manage software to meet customer expectations.

This post first appeared on Medium. As an open-source maintainer one of the hardest things is getting access to relevant test environments to test your bits. Especially when that test environment is in a territory or environment you don’t have access to.

I was visiting with a customer last week and was asked a pretty simple question: How do I get the most out of my ChefConf experience? With ChefConf now less than a month away this is a question that you might be asking, too.