With ChefConf18 coming up in May, we’ve been digging into the archives to share some of attendee’s favorite sessions from past events. This week, we’re going back to 2015 where Chef CTO and co-founder Adam Jacob shares his thoughts and insights on the relationship and similarity between DevOps practices and Kung Fu.

Starting today, all AWS customers have the ability to perform compliance as code using InSpec through AWS EC2 Systems Manager (SSM). InSpec, an open-source testing framework from Chef, provides teams the ability to define and assess system state and status across the entire application lifecycle.

In an era of rapidly developing threats and continually evolving compliance frameworks, we need to be able to react quickly. The most successful organizations pursue continuous automation in three stages: detect, correct, and automate.

Chef’s Test Kitchen project allows for fast functional testing of infrastructure code.

What are Habitat tokens? With a recent revision of the Habitat builder site, some brand new functionality has now become available for Habitat users.

How do you build a successful, profitable company on top of open-source software, when you’re giving away the core product?

The new Enterprise Management Associates “Top 3” report for DevOps has just released, and Chef is excited to be named one of the chosen vendors in the application deployment and management for DevOps. The report and recognition are based on a survey of more than 300 DevOps practitioners conducted by EMA in 2017.

ChefConf is the best opportunity you’ll have this year to connect with the Chef community, learn more from Chef and your peers about continuous automation, and earn a Chef Certification. Register now before early bird pricing ends on April, 20, 2018. This morning we published the agenda for this year’s ChefConf breakout sessions.

Here is this month’s roundup of news from Chef’s open source projects: Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and other miscellaneous tools. Chef The Chef Client team is busy preparing for the release of Chef 14 in April and trying to squeeze in as many features before we start creating release candidates.