We experienced a brief outage yesterday, and we are sorry about the inconvenience. We know how frustrating it can be when a chef-client cannot connect to the server.At 00:12 UTC the firewall configuration was modified to use TCP for syslog to keep syslog messages from being dropped/lost over UDP.

Our third annual user conference is going to be a tremendous event. In addition to dynamite talks, presentations, and meet-ups (featuring GE Capital, Yahoo, and many more), On Tues., April 15, #ChefConf is hosting an incredibly diverse and hands-on day of training, with multiple full day and half-day options available.

Chef is surging right now. As we announced yesterday: Total sales last year grew 188 percent over 2012. Our annual recurring revenue quadrupled. Nearly 70 percent of the sales came from Fortune 1000 organizations. European sales grew 400 percent YoY. The open source Chef Community grew more than 200 percent.

Companies Must Get Addicted to Moving Fast This blog series is about technology and business speed – how it’s stressing organizations; why they need to catch up; and how they can make up lost ground – before they get left behind. The first post, which follows, lays out the problem and solution.

Over the past couple weeks we published a series of blogs previewing the many adventures of a number of our stateside Chefs in Europe, who traveled across the Atlantic to help add to all our European Chef Team has been building in the past year and a half.

This post was originally published on Goat Can. After I wrote my last post, I was talking with Donnie Berkholz as we traveled to FOSDEM. Donnie commented on how powerful of a post it was, yet it left the reader hanging. He, and other readers, wanted more.

Company’s Total Sales Grew 188 Percent Year-Over-Year; Annual Recurring Revenue Quadrupled Open Source Chef Community Grew More Than 200 Percent, Creating New Automation Skill Base SEATTLE – February 12, 2014 – Chef™, the leader in IT automation, today announced surging adoption of its Chef™ IT automation platform.

Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Target, and Yahoo Join DevOps Luminaries Rachel Chalmers, Jez Humble, Adam Jacob, and Gene Kim to Address the Chef Community Conference to Feature More Than 55 Presentations on DevOps Best Practices, Continuous Delivery, and Chef Skills BMC Software, Citrix, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and VMware Among Leading Technology […]

Ohai chefs, Today we are releasing Chef Client 11.10.0. This release contains some bug fixes and lots of contributions from our awesome community. Check out our release notes for the highlights of this release. This release’s MVP is Nikhil Benesch with his fix for CHEF-4725.