Author:
Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee
Chef and OpenSSL Security Advisory 1 March 2016
By Julian Dunn
On March 1, 2016, the OpenSSL team released a new high severity security advisory. Simultaneously, the OpenSSL team also made available new versions of the OpenSSL code containing fixes for the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.
Read moreChefDK 0.9 Released
By Julian Dunn
We’re pleased to announce the release of ChefDK 0.9 today, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release is primarily to upgrade the embedded version of Chef Client to 12.5, which is being released today. You can read about the new features in Chef Client 12.5 in a companion blog post.
Read moreChef Client 12.5 Released
By Julian Dunn
We’re very excited to announce the release of Chef Client 12.5, which you can obtain via our downloads page. This release has several important new features that we’d like to highlight, so read on for more details. New custom resource model One of the greatest things about Chef is its easy extensibility.
Read moreChef Analytics 1.1.5 Release
By Julian Dunn
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Chef Analytics 1.1.5. This is a bugfix release for 1.1.4, which prevented some customers from cleanly upgrading from previous versions of Analytics. This version also includes a scheduled task (cron job) that will purge Analytics data older than three months by default on an ongoing basis.
Read moreChef Analytics 1.1.4 Release
By Julian Dunn
We’re very pleased to announce the release of Chef Analytics 1.1.4, featuring a new look and feel and user experience. We’ve also made it easier in this release to integrate with Splunk Enterprise. The biggest change in this release is that Chef Analytics now has a view that we call the Node Dashboard.
Read moreTowards Compliance as Code: A Real-World Example
By Julian Dunn
Robert Pirsig’s seminal 1974 book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, teaches us that quality is an attribute that is inherent to a work product. It is not possible to take something that has low quality and add quality later.
Read moreOntology, Infrastructure Classification, and the Design of Chef
By Julian Dunn
In philosophy, ontology is (as Wikipedia says) “the study of what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
Read moreBusting GHOSTs with Chef
By Julian Dunn
We nearly escaped the first month of the new year without another major security vulnerability, but just a few days ago, security researchers found another serious bug, which they named GHOST. This time it’s in the gethostbyname() function inside glibc, the GNU C library, so the name is apt.
Read moreAnnouncing Chef Client for IBM AIX
By Julian Dunn
Today I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Chef Client 12.0 for IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1. It is freely available from our downloads page and can be used with any version of the Chef Server up to and including Chef Server 12.
Read moreDetecting & Repairing Shellshock with Chef
By Julian Dunn
The Bourne Shell – fifth film in the trilogy. Jason Bourne tries to patch servers against obscure bug. No fights or car chases. Avoid. — Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) September 27, 2014 To nobody’s delight and amusement, this has been the year of critical, remotely-exploitable security vulnerabilities.
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