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Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Intuit, Scholastic, and Standard Bank to Address 60,000-Strong Chef Community F5 Networks and Microsoft Among Leading Technology Providers Sponsoring ChefConf 2015 SEATTLE – December 17, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced ChefConf 2015, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in […]

Lucas Welch
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Ohai chefs, Today we have released a new version of Chef Client 12.0.3 which includes more bug fixes around Chef Client 11 to Chef Client 12 migration. We needed to skip version 12.0.2 since we have discovered an issue after building before releasing our final packages.

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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.