This is the fifth entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here, the second entry here, the third entry here, and the fourth entry here. Continue below for part five. In this blog post, we talk to several members of the Chop Chop team.

This post originally appeared on Chef engineer Alex Vinyar’s blog. To teach is to learn… …or something along these lines. “How do I manage reboots with chef-client on Windows” is a question I hear every so often.

Our Triage Process The Community Engineering team, along with others in Chef engineering, have been working to triage issues that come in on our open source projects. Part of that process includes identifying and categorizing issues and assigning them to milestones.

Manage 1.11.2 is now available from the Chef downloads site. The 1.11.1 release was supposed to have contained a fix for a bug where “localhost” would be used in the Starter Kit and knife.rb that can be downloaded. Due to a problem with our release process, 1.11.1 did not actually include this fix. 1.11.

ChefConf is officially 3 weeks away! In the past few weeks we’ve been spotlighting the many engaging sessions, workshops, and sponsors taking place March 31 – April 2. But, as any of you who attended last year know, ChefConf is also straight up fun. And lots of it.

Can Dev-”Sec”-Ops really exist? On Thursday, March 19 we’re partnering with Alert Logic to present a must-attend webinar for anyone wanting to debate how to adopt a continuous delivery model to security.

Ohai Chef, We’ve just released Chef Client 12.1.1. This release includes a fixes for regressions reported from the Chef Client 12.1.0 release.

On March 19th we’re excited to bring together Microsoft and Chef to dig into the technical specifics outlined in our recent joint partnership announcement. Michael Ducy (@mfdii) and Steven Murawski (@stevenmurawski) of Chef will be joined by Kundana Palagiri (@KundanaP) of Microsoft to dig into what is means to use Chef as the DevOps platform with Microsoft Azure.

ChefConf 2015 is just three weeks away! By now you’ve taken a look at the diverse selection of sessions and workshops scheduled for March 31-April 2 in Santa Clara. And, of course, you’ve already registered, right? So, what else is going down at the show? The ChefConf Community Summit!