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Reintro to Chef InSpec 4.0 and End of Life Announcement for v1.x and v2.x
With all of the excitement during ChefConf 2019, you may have missed that we released Chef InSpec 4.0 in May 2019. We put a focus on optimizing the core Chef InSpec product while making it more extensible and capable in handling the next generation of resources. The highlights of Chef InSpec version 4.
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Congratulations to our ChefConf London 2019 Award Winners
Our second dose of ChefConf for 2019 is now complete! Our inaugural ChefConf London was a great success, bringing together ChefFriends from all over for talks, workshops, hallway track, and a cruise on the Thames. If you missed it this year, keep an eye out for next year!
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End of Life Announcement for Chef Automate v1.x
On December 31, 2019, version 1.x of Chef Automate will be officially “end of life.” In May 2018, we released Chef Automate version 2. We rebuilt Automate from the ground up to provide much greater performance, scale, and advanced analytics.
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ChefConf 2019 from an Engineering Perspective
Wow! I made it to ChefConf 2019! It was an incredible experience, filled with high-energy from not just the Chef folks themselves, but from the amazing group of Chef collaborators, customers, and community members.
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Congratulations to our 2019 Awesome Community Chefs
ChefConf 2019 has now come and gone. It was a week of learning, fun, and community. One of our traditions at our annual gathering is recognizing community members who have made significant contributions or had a noteworthy impact on our projects and community.
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Chef Announcements: Making It Easier
These are exciting and often daunting times for IT organizations. The growth and competitiveness of every enterprise depends on digital transformation, but lurking below the buzzword is a complex tangle of manual effort and blind hope.
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Introducing the Contributor Entitlement Program
Continuing our commitment to work in partnership with the Community, we are excited to announce the preliminary details to our Contributor Entitlement program. At Chef, we recognize and value the Community’s involvement and we are dedicated to enabling our contributors to use the very software they are helping to build.
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Your Time At ChefConf 2019: scale, Scale, SCALE
Are you working in a large-scale computing environment? Do you have lots of services and systems spread out all over? ChefConf 2019 is the place to get some help managing all of the information and behaviors you need for big deployments, big workflows, and all other things in the largest of large scales.
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Your Time At ChefConf 2019: Chef Habitat
This year at ChefConf 2019, we have Habitat talks to help you level up your Chef Habitat usage, or get acquainted with Chef Habitat’s features.