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#ChefTalks: “Realities of Empowerment” w/ Jez Humble and Rachel Chalmers
Another new video in our continuing series of #ChefTalks, with Jez and Rachel discussing the myths of failure within organizations, the challenges to real empowerment, and the importance of safety. “People have to understand that failure and success is not a performance issue of an individual, it’s characteristic of the system.
Security Vulnerability Releases of Chef Server
Hello, Today we are releasing new versions of Enterprise Chef Server and Open Source Chef Server to address a PostgreSQL configuration vulnerability error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases.
Chef Server 11.1.3 Security Release
Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.3 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.
Enterprise Chef Server 1.4.13 Release
Enterprise Chef Server 1.4.3 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.
Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.8 Release
Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.8 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.
#ChefTalks: Culture and Diversity in DevOps w/Rachel Chalmers and Jez Humble
Today we have another video in our ongoing #ChefTalks video series. Once again, Rachel Chalmers and Jez Humble are providing fresh perspectives and insights into culture, diversity, and change in IT. The below video provides a quick look at culture vs. tools, what DevOps is today, and where it needs to go.
From Solo to Zero: Migrating to Chef Client Local Mode
Chef Solo was the original Chef. Remember the bad old days before the Chef server existed as a product, and the only way to use Chef was to scp (or worse, ftp) giant tarballs of recipes & cookbooks from system to system?
Changes to the Contributor License Agreement Process
With the soft-opening of Supermarket, we updated the process for signing a Contributor License Agreement, CLA. Supermarket has already started tracking CLAs. Unfortunately, because of the way this data has been stored in the past, we were not able to migrate the data.
Immutable Infrastructure: Practical or Not?
With the continued popularity of Docker and containerization generally, the concept of immutable infrastructure has again come to the fore. Immutable infrastructure is generally defined as a stack that you build once (be it a virtual machine image, container image, or something else), run one or many instances of, and never change again.