Hello Chefs, We’ve got a release candidate ready for the open source Chef server 11.1.0, 11.1.0-rc.2 It’s a .2 because an earlier release candidate was lacking a Rails CVE update for the WebUI. The release candidate contains several new features, such as full IPv6 support and a new chef-server-ctl upgrade command.

In the coming weeks Chef will be publishing excerpts from an upcoming collection of editorials entitled The Quiet Revolutionaries, featuring some of the brightest minds in DevOps and web-scale IT. We’ve joined with Devops.com to serialize these essays leading up to the publication of the entire collection, right here at getchef.com.

It’s been an amazing spring for our partnership and integration with Microsoft.  Next week you can find us at the TechEd conference in Houston sharing how we can help customers automate their Windows and Azure workloads.

We were lucky to have some of the brightest minds in the industry join us this year at ChefConf 2014.

Hopefully you joined us at #ChefConf 2014 or have been inspired by the sessions online. Now is the time to come and learn how you can make your business move at the speed of true WebScale-IT. Join us and #learnchef!

Hi Chefs, I’d like to give you a quick update on our progress towards shipping a Windows build of ChefDK. I know that with the dependency solver changes in Berkshelf 3, it can be a struggle to get berks running on Windows so we’re working to get you a build as soon as we can.

Ohai Chefs, Today we’ve released Chef Client 11.12.4 and Ohai 7.0.4 fixing a few issues: CHEF-5223: ‘service’ resource broken on OSX CHEF-5211: ‘knife configure –initial’ fails to load ‘os’ and ‘hostname’ ohai plugins properly OHAI-565: cannot disable Lsb plugin Let us know if you experience any issues with these releases.

Several months ago, McKinsey & Company released a report entitled “The enterprise IT infrastructure agenda for 2014” which offers strategic advice to CIOs and other IT managers for 2014.

Hello Chefs, We’ve released ChefDK 0.1.0, a minor update to add some small features and fix bugs based on the feedback you’ve given us since our first release at ChefConf. We’ve also updated Berkshelf and Test Kitchen. You can find packages on our downloads page. Berkshelf Updates Berkshelf is updated to 3.1.1.