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ChefConf 2018 Call for Presenters is Open
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.
Automate Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
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.
Coming soon: Chef Client 14 and Chef Development Kit 3
At Chef, we understand that Infrastructure Automation enables your business to succeed, but it isn’t the reason your business exists.
Running Habitat as a Windows Service
You can now run Habitat on Windows as a Windows Service. This is the recommended way to run a Windows Habitat production environment. All of the Windows service functionality resides in a new package core/windows-service.
NodeJS Scaffolding with Databases!
Greetings fellow Habicats! Good news today – you can use the Node scaffolding to Habitize Node applications that use a database! One of my favorite resources on Node is “Express in Action” by Evan Hahn.
Modernize your Java development workflow with Habitat
This week I had the honor of speaking at Microsoft Azure’s Opendev, which hosted a variety of speakers from various cool open source projects and I represented Habitat. I raced through a tour of building a distributed Java web application in Habitat.
Manage AWS Instances in Multiple Accounts with OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Many of our users have requested an easy way to bootstrap and manage AWS instances across multiple accounts. In the past, this was difficult to achieve because of strict access restrictions between AWS accounts.
Node Scaffolding now supports pre and post build scripts!
We have just released a new version of the Node scaffolding that supports scripts defined in package.json! It is common for Node applications to include scripts in their package.json files like so: package.
Everyday Compliance with InSpec
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month comes to a close, it’s a great opportunity for all of us to make security and compliance part of our daily routine. I know, I know…no one thinks about “compliance” and gets excited. However, taking advantage of tools like InSpec can help us conquer everyday compliance with ease.