Every time we make changes to our cookbooks we are introducing risk. We can stop making changes to reduce the risk OR we can adopt new practices, like linting and testing, to help us manage that risk.

Ohai Chefs, We are pleased to announce that Chef Analytics 1.2.0 is now available and features not only a new and improved look, feel, and user experience, but also improved node management abilities. The biggest changes in this release are the new Node Detail page and the ability to purge node data.

Stuart Preston is an incredibly valued member of the Chef community and has been a key contributor in making an awesome experience using Chef along with the Microsoft product line. Stuart’s most recent addition to the Chef ecosystem is an extension for Visual Studio Code for developing your Chef code.

Note: there is an update to this post here. Ohai Chefs! I’m happy to share some exciting news for our Windows users – we now have a native 64-bit Chef Client available for you to download and try out here.

Ohai Chefs! On October 13th 2015 we announced the Chef Board of Governance (CBGB). Thanks to all of you who have nominated candidates. Today – with a slight delay for which we apologize (looks like the recent launch got the best of us) – we are opening the voting! https://www.surveymonkey.

Ranked 51st Fastest Growing Company in North America with Revenue Growth of 1,822 Percent as Enterprises in Every Industry Adopt DevOps to Become Software-Driven SEATTLE – November 13, 2015 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced it ranked 51 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, […]

Ohai Chefs! I’m happy to announce that Chef Server 12.3.0 is now available for download on the Chef Server Downloads Page and via our Apt/RPM repositories. Here are some highlights from this release: Node API change to include Policy support. ElasticSearch and external Solr support.

Ohai Chefs, We are pleased to announce that Chef Reporting 1.5.5 is now available. This release fixes several bugs and allows for the configuration of an external Postgres database. Changelog Some more insight into the changes with this release: This release includes changes from the 1.5.4, 1.5.3 and 1.5.

Ohai Chefs! We’re pleased to announce that our new Chef Compliance offering is now available in the AWS Marketplace.  Like our existing Chef Server AMI’s, there are seven AMI’s that come fully licensed in range of different node counts. These new compliance features enable you to automate the assessment and remediation of your IT infrastructure.