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.

In this post, I will explore some development patterns that I’ve seen (and done!) with Chef cookbooks, and then explain how we can evolve to a new level of cookbook development. The examples here come from Chef’s new chef-splunk cookbook, which is a refactored version of an old splunk42 cookbook.

Continuing our adventures through Europe, we’re rolling into Gent, Belgium for CfgMgmtCamp, Feb. 3-4. Chef’s founder and creator Adam Jacob is keynoting at Noon CET on Feb.

Last week we kicked off our “travel diary” detailing the European adventures of our stateside Chefs joining our European team for some awesome events. After hanging at the London Cloud Summit today, we’ve got lots more to see and do. Tomorrow, Jan. 30, you can attend our 2-Day #learnchef training in Amsterdam.

Today I’d like to share a cookbook that we’ve developed, chef-splunk. This cookbook replaces an old internal Splunk cookbook that has served us well for quite some time, but that one was becoming more difficult to modify and extend. There is a community splunk cookbook already.

Parse Delivers Complete Mobile App Platform with Chef™ Deploys Enterprise Chef™ to Automate Amazon Web Services Infrastructure, Creating Nimble, Easily Scalable Cloud Service That Gets Developers Up and Running in No Time SEATTLE – January 28, 2014 – Chef™, IT automation for speed and awesomeness, today announced that Parse has automated hundreds of Amazon Web […]

This post was originally published on Goat Can. “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying Enterprise IT Org as everyone else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of IT.

In a way, building IT infrastructure isn’t particularly exciting. Want to turn a Linux server into a MySQL database server? Enter some commands to install MySQL. Congratulations, you have successfully used some data (yum -y install mysql-server) to change the generic model (the out-of-the-box operating system). Much of our infrastructure is built the same way.

As you all know, we already have a humming operation in Europe. Now, many of our stateside Chefs are about to embark on a true European adventure, beginning with the London Cloud Summit (LCS) on January 29th.