Microsoft and Chef have been long time partners and 2016 is no exception.

I’m delighted to announce that Datadog is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure. Combining metrics and events from servers, databases, applications, configuration management tools, and more, Datadog provides a unified view of system health and performance.

Leader in Online Media Automates Services Management and Deployment Across Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform, Achieving Greater Development Velocity SEATTLE – July 6, 2016 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced MSN is using the Chef IT automation platform to configure and deploy applications throughout its large-scale Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

AWS joins ChefConf 2016 as a platinum sponsor and we couldn’t be happier. Over and over customers tell us AWS is a strategic part of their infrastructure strategy. This year at ChefConf we have a wide variety of Chef content that is aimed at AWS users and folks interested in exploring AWS.

I’d like to announce that DNSimple is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. DNSimple provides the tools you need to manage your domains.

We’re very pleased to announce that Chef Server HA is now available in full release.

We’re happy to announce that Sensu is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. Sensu is an open-source, cloud-aware, monitoring framework that allows organizations to compose comprehensive monitoring & telemetry solutions that meet their unique business requirements. Known as a monitoring router, you can create dynamic scalable alerts and views into your systems.

Today I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Chef Server 12.7.0 for IBM Power Systems on Linux. This marks the first time Chef Server will be generally available (GA) for Ubuntu 14.04 (little endian) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (big endian and little endian).

DevOps is meant to be collaborative. It’s about shared experiences — and so is ChefConf. Agile development practices teach us the technique of pair programing, so it only makes sense to extend that philosophy to pair conference attending.