Author:

Lucas Welch

Former Chef Employee


Chef Joins Red Hat’s ManageIQ Community

This morning at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, our friends at Red Hat announced their new ManageIQ Community, which aims to be a one-stop shop for open source cloud management, including governance, automation, and tons of content.

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Coming Soon… The Quiet Revolutionaries (Phil Dibowitz, Jez Humble, Kate Matsudaira, and More)

In the coming weeks Chef will be publishing excerpts from an upcoming collection of editorials entitled The Quiet Revolutionaries, featuring some of the brightest minds in DevOps and web-scale IT. We’ve joined with Devops.com to serialize these essays leading up to the publication of the entire collection, right here at getchef.com.

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New Book: Chef in Action by Dimitri Aivaliotis

Awesome Chefs make many tremendous contributions to the betterment of the entire Chef Community each and every day. Today is no different and in this post we’ll highlight an especially notable achievement by Dimitri Aivaliotis, a system architect and Chef contributor based in Zurich.

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Chef + Docker: Automating Container Workflows

More than likely most of you are familiar with Linux containers but let’s briefly review what the buzz is about. Application containers are an operating system feature that allows you to run your app in an isolated environment without the need for a separate kernel. They’re kind of like a mini-VM without all the overhead.

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Leading Enterprises Embrace Web-Scale IT Automation with Chef

Chef Continues Rapid Growth, Strengthens Partner Ecosystem, and Broadens Community Footprint to Help Companies Thrive in Today’s Digital Economy SEATTLE – April 14, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that this week’s #ChefConf 2014 will unveil a software and services ecosystem that helps businesses move faster and meet customer demands.

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New Research Reveals Notable Economic Influence of Developers in Business and Society

Survey from Chef Shows Majority of Software Developers Feel Empowered to Experiment and Will Be a Revolutionary Influence in the Next Five Years SEATTLE – April 14, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today released results from a sweeping new survey  that indicates the emergence of a power class of developers.

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Tech Leaders Showcase Chef Support at #ChefConf 2014

Chef is Collaborating with AWS, Google, HP Cloud, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft, Rackspace, VMware, and Many More to Define how Businesses Deliver Software and Services to Customers SEATTLE – April 14, 2014 – In advance of #ChefConf 2014, Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that the company is working with a diverse group […]

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Chef and Rackspace Collaborate to Expand Reach of Enterprise Chef

Open Cloud Leader Bakes Enterprise Chef into New DevOps Service, Empowering Users to Easily Deploy and Scale Applications SEATTLE – April 14, 2014 – In advance of #ChefConf 2014, Chef, the leader in IT automation, today announced that Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the open cloud company, is using Enterprise Chef for its DevOps Service.

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Betting on Open – A #ChefConf Panel Discussion

New this year for our third annual #ChefConf is a panel we hope all of you will join us for at 4 pm (PT) in the Seacliff room.

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Chef in the Clouds Part III: HP @ #ChefConf

We’ve talked previously about our full integration with HP Cloud Services to deliver full stack infrastructure automation for server provisioning and configuration management.

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