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Or, Yo Dawg, I heard you like Chef. This post originally appeared on SysAdvent. This post is dedicated to Ezra Zygmuntowicz. Without Ezra, we wouldn’t have had Merb for the original Chef server, chef-solo, and maybe not even Chef itself. His contributions to the Ruby, Rails, and Chef communities are immense. Thanks, Ezra, RIP.

Joshua Timberman
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This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. Scenario: You’ve started up a brand new Chef Server using version 12, and you have installed Chef 12 on your local system.

Joshua Timberman
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Ohai chefs, Recently we have been getting some questions about the versions of Chef Client and Chef Development Kit. I wanted to share some information about the background and the upcoming releases to shed some light into this topic.

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Company Moves Into New 36,000 Square Foot Headquarters in Downtown Seattle; Plans to Grow to 400 Employees in 2015 Q3 Incremental Recurring Revenue Grows 142 Percent Year-Over-Year; Downloads of Chef More Than Double to 12 Million

Lucas Welch
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This post was originally published on Medium.com by Community member David Echols. Creating Your Own Chef Cookbook Generator The Chef Development Kit (Chef DK) comes with an awesome tool: chef.

Jason McDonald
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Ohai chefs, Today we have released Chef Client 12.0.1 with some minor backwards compatibility fixes to make it easier to migrate from Chef Client 11. 12.0.0 release was done at an inconvenient time and caused unexpected upgrade errors for some of our users.

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Ohai Chefs! On December 1st we held the public post mortem for our force push to master issue. We briefly covered what happened, the timeline of events and then talked about ways we could prevent this in the future.

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Today I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0 for IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1. It is freely available from our downloads page and can be used with any version of the Chef Server up to and including Chef Server 12.

Julian Dunn
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Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0.0 which complements Chef Server 12. This version introduces numerous improvements to Chef Client while retaining backwards compatibility with current versions of Chef Client and Chef Server. ## MVP This release wouldn’t be possible without the help of Chef community along the way.