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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.


Serving up Delight in London

The week of October 13-17 is full of amazing Chef events in London. Make plans to join us for as many of these events as you can. And if you would like an early preview, join us this week for the Chef Users London Meetup on Thursday, October 9.

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Security Releases: Omnibus 2.0.2 and 3.2.2 (insecure file ownership in Omnibus-built Debian and Ubuntu packages)

Ohai everyone, We have released Omnibus 2.0.2 and Omnibus 3.2.2 to address an issue in which the contents of Omnibus-built Debian and Ubuntu packages are being installed with an arbitrary non-root UID and GID.

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Security Releases: Chef Client and Related Products (insecure file ownership)

Today we are announcing security releases of all supported versions of the Chef Client, ChefDK, Chef Container and the Push Jobs client. These releases address package ownership issues on Debian-based platforms. Platforms Ubuntu Linux Debian Linux Description Chef products installed from Debian-style .

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Chef RFCs and You

This was originally posted on coderanger.net. Chef RFCs are a way to propose and discuss changes to Chef and related projects. What is an RFC? Each RFC proposes a major change to Chef or another piece of software, or to the processes we use to develop them.

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Behaving Responsibly in the Chef Community

Today one of our most prolific community members announced his decision to leave Chef and go on a software engineering sabbatical, in part because of how he was treated by a few members in our community. As a company, Chef takes the safety and security of our employees extremely seriously.

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Serving Up Delight at the Community Summits

We are excited to announce this year’s Chef Community Summits! The Chef Community Summit is a a unique opportunity for open-source contributors, Chef engineers, and Chef users of all experience levels to come together and share their passion and excitement for Chef. This intimate gathering of enthusiasts is facilitated as an Open Space event.

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Over 10,000,000 served!

This month the Chef project crossed a major milestone: over 10 million downloads of open source Chef! THANK YOU for using Chef to automate all your things!

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#ChefConf is next week…and nearly sold out!

Get ready for three days of stirring up delight! #ChefConf kicks off on Tuesday and promises to be everything you need to make IT delightful: technical workshops, keynotes from leaders in DevOps and IT automation, sessions goodness, the Awesome Community Chefs Awards and, of course, a party!

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Chef Supermarket – The New Community Site

We’re Finally Making Progress On A Better Community Site Experience Chef is awesome. Our existing community site experience…OK, but not awesome. We announced plans to revamp and open source the community site at the Community Summit in November and now were making good progress on that with Supermarket.

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Announcing #ChefConf 2014

Make your plans now to cook up awesome with us at #ChefConf 2014! This will be the largest and best #ChefConf yet and we’ve got some really amazing things planned for this year. A great set of workshops, amazing keynotes, and session tracks featuring awesome members of the community!

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