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Nathen Harvey

As the VP of Community Development at Chef, Nathen helps the community whip up an awesome ecosystem built around the Chef framework. Nathen also spends much of his time helping people learn about the practices, processes, and technologies that support DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Web-scale IT. Prior to joining Chef, Nathen spent a number of years managing operations and infrastructure for a number of web applications. Nathen is a co-host of the Food Fight Show, a podcast about Chef and DevOps.


The State of the Public Supermarket

The public Supermarket is the place to share cookbooks and other tools and plugins with the Chef community. There are more than 2400 cookbooks currently available for download on the Supermarket. Many people in our community use cookbooks from the Supermarket to automate and manage applications and infrastructure every day.

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Supermarket & Berkshelf Outage – Incident Report

On Thursday, August 13, 2015 the Supermarket (https://supermarket.chef.io) had a partial outage. This outage prevented Berkshelf from downloading cookbook dependencies, prevented users from logging into the Supermarket, and caused a number of AWS OpsWorks lifecycle events to fail. The outage began at 5:22AM UTC and was resolved at 11:49AM UTC.

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Chef Community: Engage with and learn from Chef practitioners

The Chef Community is a group of professionals interested in building and operating high velocity organizations. This is a diverse community with representation from many different backgrounds, levels of experience, and geographies.

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Chef Community Summit – Register Now

We will be hosting the Chef Community Summit on October 14 and 15 in Seattle, Washington and hope to see you there. This marks the fifth year for the Chef Community Summit and it has proven to be one of the most engaging events of the year for the Chef Community.

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Our mailing lists have [not] moved!

UPDATE After a few hours on the new mailing list we ran into issues with rate limiting. We’re working to get those resolved but, in the meantime, please continue to use the old mailing lists. **Chef Users** * [email protected] * http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef **Chef Developers** * [email protected] * http://lists.opscode.

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Mailing List Migration

The migration was rolled back. Please continue to use the existing mailing lists until further notice. ### lists.opscode.com moving to Google Groups To: Chef mailing lists Subject: Good bye, lists.opscode.com. Was Re: Re: Re: Re: Hello lists.opscode.

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Awesome Community Chefs – Noah Kantrowitz

The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.

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Nominate an Awesome Community Chef

The Chef community is full of many awesome individuals who contribute and do exceptional things every day. Each year at ChefConf, three individuals are awarded the Awesome Community Chef award.

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ChefConf :: Level Up

ChefConf 2015 is the largest, most vibrant gathering of web-scale IT and DevOps leaders, practitioners, and innovators. Featuring three days of inspired discussions, collaborative presentations, technical training, and hands-on labs focused on automating infrastructure and the continuous delivery of applications. Join us in Santa Clara, CA from March 31 to April 2, 2015 for ChefConf.

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Serving up delight at the Chef Community Summits

This month we’ve held two Chef Community Summits and it’s been a real delight watching the community gather and discuss most important topics. We held a Chef Community Summit in Seattle at the beginning of October and another in London last week. Both Summits were facilitated Open Space events.

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