The Habitat team attended and sponsored 2/3 of the major conferences for the Rust Lang community this year. The most recent being the first annual Rust Belt Rust Conference in Pittsburgh, PA on October 27th and 28th! Some of you might notice when reading those dates: this was only two days after the Habitat Community Summit.

The audit cookbook is a tool used to run InSpec tests and send the results to chef-compliance (either directly or via chef-server) or to chef-visibility in an automated way. We recently took on an overhaul of the audit cookbook to rewrite the content using chef handlers.

Note: This blog post may be out of date. Check out a more recent article “Get Started with Habitat on Kubernetes” from our partners at Kinvolk. Habitat simplifies creating, managing, and running containers.

I was fortunate to present to the AWS Sydney North User Group on the topic “Build Better Containers for ECS with Habitat” (slides here). Since I was new to using Habitat and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) I documented my findings.

The inaugural year of any freshly-minted FOSS community is full of new experiences. For the Habitat community, it’s no different: it’s certainly been a year of firsts. The Habitat Community Summit 2016 was a truly awesome and inspiring experience. The turn out and level of participation was absolutely fantastic for a first time event.

Chef is a company rooted in open source, so community matters a great deal to us. As DevOps goes mainstream, it’s important to ensure we building a strong, inclusive, and diverse community.

In the US Mid-West and the Southern part of Ontario, Canada, we’re lucky enough to have several DevOps events spread out from spring to fall. October hails the end of the conference season here, mainly because travel becomes dreadful once it begins to snow!

Chef will cease publishing to Bintray on December 30th, 2016. We will also delete all existing artifacts from https://bintray.com/chef on this date. Why are you doing this?

Overview In June this year Chef released an awesome new open-source project called Habitat.