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Chef Analytics 1.1.1 security release
### Description We shipped Analytics `1.1.0` with a development configuration setting enabled that disabled authentication on the endpoints used to create and modify rules and notification aliases. This meant that rules could be created or modified without having to be logged in as a valid chef user. We have released version `1.1.
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Pauly Comtois: My DevOps Story (Pt. 1)
Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.
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Chef Analytics 1.1.0 Release
We are happy to announce the release of the Chef analytics 1.1.0 package (`opscode-analytics-1.1.0`). `1.1.0` is the new production release, and has many new features over the `1.0.x` series. You can download the release from the Chef analytics download page.
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Those Pesky Supermarket Download Counts
Since the launch of Supermarket there has been the occasional question about how quickly the download counts grow for any given cookbook. In fact, if you upload an empty cookbook, it will quickly have greater than 10,000 downloads.
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Standard Bank: Our DevOps Journey (part 1)
The beginning. Welcome to the first of a series of blog posts that describe Standard Bank of South Africa‘s DevOps journey. This series describes how Standard Bank is transforming its delivery process to provide new features and services at velocity. Standard Bank is the largest bank in Africa.
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ChefDK 0.3.6 Released!
Hi Chefs, Today we released ChefDK 0.3.6. This release includes a bunch of new stuff: * Custom generator cookbooks can now be configured in your config.rb/knife.rb * `chef generate` will now generate ChefSpec tests for new recipes, and ServerSpec tests when a kitchen.
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Join Chef at DeveloperWeek 2015
San Francisco’s largest tech event series, DeveloperWeek, is back in a major way this year, bringing more than 4,000 attendees together to hack, build, collaborate, learn, and, of course, party. From a 1,000-person hackathon (Accelerate 2015) to GirlDevWeek, DeveloperWeek 2015 is packed to the brim with awesome events and dynamic content.
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Convert Your Bash Scripts With chef-apply
A Brief Note Before we get started, it’s worth mentioning that even though I’m going to pretend Chef is a scripting language, a Chef runlist describes the desired final state of a system, rather than providing a list of actions to execute.
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Release: Chef Client 11.18.0
Ohai Chefs, We’ve just released Chef 11.18.0. This release includes the following changes: ## 11.18.0 * Fix an issue where knife could load commands from a different version of chef in ChefDK. ChefDK #227 * Removed dependencies on the ‘json’ gem, replaced with ffi-yajl. Use Chef::JSONCompat library for parsing and printing.