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Company’s Q2 Incremental Recurring Revenue Grows 182 Percent Year-Over-Year with a Quarterly Record Number of New Customers New Chef Capabilities for Automated Infrastructure Testing, Container Integration, and an Analytics Platform Bring Benefits of Web-Scale IT to the Enterprise SEATTLE – July 15, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced strong business […]

Lucas Welch

Today we have released a new version for Chef Development Kit a.k.a. Chef DK. The biggest highlight of this release is the Windows support. Starting with version 0.2.0 Chef DK is now supported on Windows.

Update:  Learn more about Chef Analytics in our upcoming webinar on September 17, 2014 at 10am Pacific. The Chef analytics platform is a premium feature of Chef.

James Casey

This week, Chef released a version of the Chef client that can run inside a Linux container. This container-friendly client is called chef-container. In this post we’ll give you an introduction to chef-container, its purpose and its components. We’ll also tell you about a new knife plugin for managing container images.

Tom Duffield

Software Management Provider Chooses Chef to Automate Virtualized Infrastructure, Accelerate Application Development, and Tighten Customer Feedback Loop SEATTLE – July 15, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that Rally Software, a leading global provider of enterprise-class software and services solutions to drive business agility, has deployed Chef to bring its […]

Lucas Welch

This month the Chef project crossed a major milestone: over 10 million downloads of open source Chef! THANK YOU for using Chef to automate all your things!

Nathen Harvey

This post is comes from Steven Murawski, Chef’s newest Technical Community Manager and Instructor. It originally appeared on Steven’s blog here. Wow.. I haven’t even had my first day at Chef and I’ve landed a doozy of a question from Twitter.

Lucas Welch

Earlier today we were alerted to an issue where Berkshelf v3 clients were crashing upon attempting to download cookbooks. We were able to identify an issue where Supermarket was returning HTTP URLs instead of HTTPS URLs in the Berkshelf API Endpoint. We flushed the cache to correct the issue.

Reporting 1.1.3 is a bug-fix release to address a regression introduced by Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.8 that contains tightened permissions to Postgresql.