Ohai folks, Today we’ve released Chef Client 11.12.0 & 10.32.2 with new releases of ohai and mixlib-shellout. Due to a tagging mishap we have skipped 10.32.0. Chef Client 11.12.0 includes ohai 7.0.0 and mixlib-shellout 1.4.0. Chef Client 10.32.2 includes ohai 6.22.0. Important: These releases remediate the recently published OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability (more info here).

Good day Chefs! As some of you may know, CVE-2014-0160 (“Heartbleed”) announced a vulnerability in certain versions of OpenSSL. Chef uses OpenSSL in its platforms (both hosted and on premise). We take the security of our software and your data very seriously.

I’m pleased to join Chef this week as technical content lead for learnchef.com. I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and talk a bit about my role here and how I can help you. My background mainly centered around client-side systems programming using C++ and .NET on Windows.

After a slight delay, I’m continuing my blog series on why Enterprise IT is too slow for business today and how we solve this problem. The real business challenge in this, the second decade of the 21st century, is moving quickly without hurrying, and without making significant mistakes.

During the deploy of Chef Manage, there was a brief period where redirection was not behaving properly and visitors were presented with an invalid SSL certificate. This happened because some configuration changes were not adequately tested or applied in all the correct environments as we had planned.

We’ve talked previously about our full integration with HP Cloud Services to deliver full stack infrastructure automation for server provisioning and configuration management.

We’ve talked previously about our ongoing collaboration with IBM and we continue to make some real goodness happen. Today, Chef integrates with IBM SmartCloud to automate configuration management and application delivery in IBM’s OpenStack-powered cloud.

This morning at the Microsoft Build Conference, DevOps was front and center. We’ve been working closely with the product teams at Microsoft and Microsoft Open Technologies to empower users to automate their entire stack – from Windows Server to Azure – with Chef.

Integration of Enterprise Chef with Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Azure Enables Developers to Automate Workloads and Accelerate Migration to the Azure Cloud SEATTLE – April 3, 2014 – From the Microsoft Build Conference, Chef™, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced new Windows and Microsoft Azure automation capabilities, empowering developers to accelerate software and […]