Last year at re:Invent 2016, Amazon announced the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). Chef, available as a service to Amazon customers, opened up continuous automation to a whole new generation of customers creating cloud-native applications.

I recently posted about using Terraform, vCenter and Chef, and promised a follow up about extending the Terraform plans to work with Windows and multiple Virtual Machines. Here is part two that will continue to build off of this plan: https://gist.github.com/jjasghar/f061f493ad8f631a6d4b5b5085c7cb35 Windows Open up the following link to show off the .

If you’re just starting out with Terraform, you may feel overwhelmed by all the different options and settings. Read on to learn how I set up Terraform with vCenter and Chef. Hopefully, this guide will make your journey a bit easier, and provide some context around Terraform .tfconfig files.

Traditional monitoring includes monitoring low-level items like CPU, memory, and disk utilization. It is still important to understand and have data for these things as they will help with capacity planning and may be helpful data points when responding to incidents and outages.

As you may have seen in this blog post, we now have over 10,000 members of the Chef community signed up for an account on Learn Chef Rally. The Chef training team is busy developing the learning content you need to succeed with Chef and grow your career in DevOps.

Microsoft continues to embrace open source. “We’ve been on this journey for the last few years now,” says Rohan Kumar, general manager, Database Systems, Microsoft. “It’s really a company about choice right now. We really want to meet customers where they are.

ChefConf is the largest community reunion and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team! ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open.

It’s been almost a full year since we announced AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate – a native AWS service that provides Chef Automate and Chef Server managed by Amazon. In that time, we’ve found that customers love how quick it is to get started and how easy it is to maintain.

At Chef, we understand that Infrastructure Automation enables your business to succeed, but it isn’t the reason your business exists.