Today one of our most prolific community members announced his decision to leave Chef and go on a software engineering sabbatical, in part because of how he was treated by a few members in our community. As a company, Chef takes the safety and security of our employees extremely seriously.

We are excited to announce this year’s Chef Community Summits! The Chef Community Summit is a a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Chef engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. This intimate gathering of enthusiasts is facilitated as an Open Space event.

This was originally posted on stevenmurawski.com. An email recently came across one of the mailing lists I subscribe to. I wanted to share my answer here, because this is an important discussion. Is DSC for Setup or Management?

We’re pumped for VMworld this week, especially because our own Matt Ray is taking part in a cool joint demo with our friends at VMware.

Daryn McCool was nice enough to share the story of Scholastic’s major IT modernization initiative with us. It was a great opportunity to have an enterprise customer walk through their journey to the cloud. If you are considering an IT modernization project or looking for best practices in the community, I’d recommend watching the webinar.

As many of you in the Community have seen by now, I recently joined Chef as a Vice President (more on what in particular I will be up to in a minute).

Continuous Delivery Pioneer to Play Leadership Role at Chef as Enterprise DevOps Adoption Surges SEATTLE – August 20, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced Jez Humble has joined the company as vice president of development velocity.

Ohai chefs, Today we have released Chef Client 10.34.0 and Ohai 6.24.0. These releases contain important bug fixes and improvements that has been blockers to the Chef users who are on Chef 10. The MVP of this release is again **Phil Dibowitz**. Thanks Phil for your continuous support to us while maintaining Chef 10.

Here at Chef we have the privilege to share all kinds of innovation, community news and compelling events with you via the blog. I’m particularly happy to invite you to a webinar we’re hosting this week with Scholastic.