Background In Chef 12 the old Chef::Platform hashmap located in `lib/chef/platform/provider_mapping.rb` has been deprecated. In its place is a dynamic provider and resolver resolution mechanism which is preferred and which can be manipulated via DSL methods on the resource and provider.

This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. This quick tip is brought to you by my preparation for my ChefConf talk about using Chef Provisioning to build a Chef Server Cluster, which is based on my blog post about the same.

UPDATE After a few hours on the new mailing list we ran into issues with rate limiting. We’re working to get those resolved but, in the meantime, please continue to use the old mailing lists. **Chef Users** * chef@lists.opscode.com * http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef **Chef Developers** * chef-dev@lists.opscode.com * http://lists.opscode.

Project Jellyfish 2.0: The Next Step for Cloud Brokering Last year was a big one for Booz Allen’s cloud broker team.

Continuing our series of posts about the tremendous sessions, workshop, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, this blog is dedicated to the many career opportunities you can explore at ChefConf, including those at two of our sponsors – Target and Disney.

This post continues our bi-weekly blog series on Awesome Chef Paul Comtois’ DevOps Story. You can read part two in this series below, while part one is here. Context: Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.

Today we released Chef Server 12.0.3. The biggest component of this release is an early implementation of multikey authentication and `chef-server-ctl` commands you can use to build your own key rotation!

This is a guest blog from Kevin Gilpin, CTO @ Conjur, one of our many awesome ChefConf sponsors. Kevin and his team will also be leading a workshop on March 31, detailed in the following post. When it comes to systems documentation for compliance or regulatory purposes, you can hear the engineers groan.

We’ve teamed up with O’Reilly Media on a series of webinars on Business at Web Speed. Last month’s episode featured our own Adam Jacob teaming up with O’Reilly’s Courtney Nash to introduce the key concepts of Business at Web Speed. You can watch a recorded version of their presentation here, including a kitten-infused Q&A session.