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Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee
Chef Open Source Community News – April 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s what happened in the Chef, Habitat and InSpec open-source communities over the last month. Chef The biggest news from the Chef project is that we released Chef 14, a faster and easier to use Chef.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef 14: A Friendlier, Easier Chef
By Julian Dunn
Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of Chef 14, the fastest and easiest to use Chef version yet. With nearly 30 new resources added since Chef 13, you can quickly get started using Chef for all of your infrastructure automation tasks immediately.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – March 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here’s this month’s roundup of all the news from across Chef’s open source projects for the month of March. Chef With only another two weeks to go until the official release of Chef 14, the team is hard at work on merging in the last features with the stretch goal of hitting 30 new resources.
Read moreWhy “Why-Run” Mode Is Considered Harmful
By Julian Dunn
This is a bit of an odd post as product marketing is usually not in the position of recommending against the use of certain product features. But a question about Chef’s “why-run” mode came up during a webinar last week, and we’ve heard several other stories of customers still using this feature in Chef.
Read moreChef Open Source Community News – February 2018
By Julian Dunn
Here is this month’s roundup of news from Chef’s open source projects: Chef, Habitat, InSpec, and other miscellaneous tools. Chef The Chef Client team is busy preparing for the release of Chef 14 in April and trying to squeeze in as many features before we start creating release candidates.
Read moreInSpec 2.0 Cloud Resources Mini-Tutorial
By Julian Dunn
InSpec 2 introduces the ability to test cloud resources for compliance in addition to the system and application-level resources that previously appeared in InSpec 1. In this tutorial, we’ll use InSpec to write a very simple control to check attributes on a virtual machine in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Read moreAnnouncing InSpec 2.0
By Julian Dunn
We are delighted to announce the availability of InSpec 2.0, the newest version of Chef’s open-source project for compliance automation. InSpec helps you express security and compliance requirements as code and incorporate it directly into the delivery process, eliminating ambiguity and manual processes to help you ship faster while remaining secure.
Read morePreparing for Chef 14 release and Chef 12 End-of-Life
By Julian Dunn
As we previously announced, April 2018 will mark two important milestones for Chef Client and ChefDK: Chef Client 14 and ChefDK 3 will be released near the beginning of April. This represent the fastest and easiest-to-use versions of Chef to date. Chef Client 12 and ChefDK 1 will become end-of-life on April 30, 2018.
Read moreChef at CfgMgmtCamp 2018
By Julian Dunn
2018 marked the fifth anniversary of the CfgMgmtCamp conference, and for this milestone, the organizers decided to invite the luminaries of configuration management back to Gent, Belgium for a reunion.
Read more2018 Compliance Survey Results: Compliance Lays Path to Agility for Software Delivery with ‘Detect, Correct, Automate’ Approach
By Julian Dunn
Last year, we conducted a survey of more than 1,500 Chef customers to help us better understand their most pressing issues related to automation: productivity, roles and technology adoption. As we’ve noted in the past, the highest-performing software organizations are able to outperform their peers in each of three key areas, and associated metrics.
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