In January we released Chef analytics 1.1 which added some great new features including * a flexible rules engine for notifications * inline diffs in the actions view * a new webhook notification destination At the time of the release, Chef analytics relied upon features only available in Chef Server 12.

We believe that diversity is critical in building a healthy community. One of our core goals is to help address the lack of diversity in attendees at ChefConf. What do we mean by diversity? Ashe Dryden wrote up an excellent blog post following a series of hangouts she held on diversity.

Manage 1.11.1 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes a fix for a regression where “localhost” would be used in the Starter Kit instead of the correct Chef server URL. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

This is a guest post by Phil Dibowitz, Production Engineer at Facebook At the Chef Community Summit this year, as with all Summits, there was a Hack Day. My hack project was to extend Chef’s `package` resource to be able to handle multiple packages at once. Why?

This is a guest post by Brock Spradling, Director of Sales and Marketing at Ostrato  On March 12th we’re excited to bring together OpenWhere, Chef and Ostrato on a webinar to discuss how this geospatial analytics startup is able to compete in the hyper-competitive defense marketplace.

Ohai Chefs, Today, we’re excited to announce that Chef Client 12.1.0 is now available. This release brings with it many new features and bug fixes. Below are some of the highlights. For more information, check out the changelog, release notes, and doc changes.

Last week we announced a new partnership with Microsoft, which was driven in large part by the intense demand we’re seeing in the enterprise for Chef x Azure, Chef x Powershell, and Chef x Visual Studio.

This is the fourth 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 and the third entry here. Continue below for part four.

Manage 1.11.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes fixes for reporting dashboard errors, changes to make running Manage behind a load balancer more usable, and various other bug fixes and improvements. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.