Sporting a Chef’s hat at ChefConf 2018 in Chicago last month, Arun Gupta, Principal Open Source Strategist at Amazon Web Services, asked a question that a lot of you have been pondering; “Do I still need Chef in the world of containers?

Jenkins users can now better manage their IT infrastructure and reap the benefits of the latest open-source plugin accessible from the Jenkins Update Center and source code on GitHub.

This October, we will be hosting two community summits. These events are an opportunity for people building high-velocity organizations to come together for two days of learning, collaborating, and sharing. Each summit has its own objectives and format; please read on to discover which summit is best for you and your team!

Choir! Choir! Choir! at ChefConf Chef has always recognized that the community is our foundation. ChefConf is the greatest celebration of our community. It is the event where our community gathers for a few days of collaborating, sharing, and learning from and with each other.

Six years ago, CSG International, the company that provides backend SaaS support to major telecom companies, started their DevOps transformation journey to modernize how they develop and run software. And for the past six years, CSG has made significant strides in transforming to a high-performing IT organization.

Today we are announcing the end-of-life date of the standalone Chef Compliance Server product to be December 31, 2018. All of the functionality of Chef Compliance Server is already incorporated into Chef Automate 2 whose general availability we announced at ChefConf 2018.

Here’s what happened in June across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.2.0, the latest and greatest in the Chef 14 series.

We’ve had an exciting first half of the year at Chef. Between ChefConf last month and announcing Chef Automate 2.0 in addition to our updates to InSpec and the new Chef Workstation, it’s an exciting time for us.

Today we are excited to announce Chef’s support for Amazon Linux 2. Chef Automate delivers the most comprehensive automation platform spanning tasks from infrastructure to compliance all the way to applications. We do this using Chef, enabling infrastructure automation; InSpec, enabling compliance automation; and Habitat, enabling application automation.