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.

Manage 1.9.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes packages that work on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and Redhat Enterprise Linux 7, as well as numerous bug fixes and low-severity security updates. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

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Hopefully by now you’ve all seen the ChefConf session guide and are as pumped for the show as we are. If you haven’t already registered, you still have until Wed., 2/4, to take advantage of early bird ticket prices.

Ohai Chefs! Today we released ChefDK 0.4.0. As promised in an earlier blog post, this release includes the latest stable version of Chef Client. Other than that, we’ve gone through and updated a lot of packages that ship with ChefDK.  These include: chef 12.0.3 chefspec 4.2.0 chef-provisioning 0.18 chef-provisioning-aws 0.2.1 chef-provisioning-fog 0.12 chef-vault 2.4.

This is the second entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here and continue below for part two. Planning the DevOps Journey Standard Bank brought in Chef to help plan and execute its DevOps journey.

We nearly escaped the first month of the new year without another major security vulnerability, but just a few days ago, security researchers found another serious bug, which they named GHOST. This time it’s in the gethostbyname() function inside glibc, the GNU C library, so the name is apt.

The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.

It’s here! The ChefConf 2015 schedule is now live and being updated continuously (well, maybe not continuously, but pretty frequently). This year’s ChefConf will feature more than 40 sessions of dynamite content, from technical how-to presentations and demos, to examinations of cultural change and organizational structure.