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Chef Server 11.1.4 Release
Hello Chefs, We are happy to announce that the 11.1.4 release of the open source Chef Server is now available. This is primarily a bug fix release. This release includes a bump in OpenSSL from 1.0.1h to 1.0.1i, as we announced in a previous post.
Cookbook Dependency API Postmortem
On Tuesday, August 12th at 15:10 UTC, the cookbook dependency API provided by Supermarket became unusable. We are very sorry for this outage and interruption to workflow. In this post, I will explain what happened and the mitigation steps we are taking to prevent this from happening in the future.
Welcome More New Chefs!
Continuing our series of updates on the new Chefs joining our engineering corps., we have another group of three delightful folks who have come on board.
Supermarket Dependency API Errors – Postmortem Meeting
Earlier this morning, a Supermarket code deployment caused the dependency API at /universe to start returning errors. Redis became unreachable, resulting in Berkshelf v3.x clients failing to resolve dependencies. At Chef, we conduct postmortem meetings for outages and issues with the site and services.
“Enjoy the Work”: Finding the work/life balance
Recently MongoDB CEO Max Schireson wrote a compelling and personal blog about why he was stepping down as the company’s CEO.
Windows Automation Testing w/Chef by @mwrockx
Our friend Matt Wrock, a software engineer at CenturyLink Cloud, recently wrote a tremendous “how to” blog on Windows automation testing using Chef, Vagrant, and Test Kitchen. Matt writes: I work for CenturyLink Cloud and infrastructure automation is front and center to our business.
OpenSSL security advisory response: 6 Aug 2014
Chef Software has reviewed the following security advisory and does not believe that this represents a critical security risk to our users. OpenSSL Security Advisory The next planned release of all affected products will include an updated OpenSSL version; we will not have an exploit-specific release.
Management Console Enterprise Chef Add-on 1.5.4 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Management Console for Enterprise Chef 11, 1.5.4. Please contact support@getchef.com for details on obtaining this release.
New Features on the Supermarket
The Supermarket keeps getting better. In addition to the everyday improvements that we are pushing out all the time, we enabled two big features last week.