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Chef Habitat
Habitat Discourse Migration
By Ian Henry
Hello inHabitants! In our perpetual effort to find better ways to keep our community connected, informed, and cared for we’ve made the decision to retire the Habitat Discourse Site and migrate to something we hope will be more useful.
Read moreHappy Birthday OWCA! Plus the Latest Chef Innovations for AWS Customers
By Matt Carter
Last year at AWS re:Invent, Chef was excited to join Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels to announce the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). As the first provider of configuration management through OpsWorks, Chef has a long standing commitment to the success of AWS customers.
Read moreHabitat on Microsoft Azure OpenDev
By Michele Todd
Microsoft continues to embrace open source. “We’ve been on this journey for the last few years now,” says Rohan Kumar, general manager, Database Systems, Microsoft. “It’s really a company about choice right now. We really want to meet customers where they are.
Read moreRunning Habitat as a Windows Service
By Matt Wrock
You can now run Habitat on Windows as a Windows Service. This is the recommended way to run a Windows Habitat production environment. All of the Windows service functionality resides in a new package core/windows-service.
Read moreNodeJS Scaffolding with Databases!
Greetings fellow Habicats! Good news today – you can use the Node scaffolding to Habitize Node applications that use a database! One of my favorite resources on Node is “Express in Action” by Evan Hahn.
Read moreModernize your Java development workflow with Habitat
By Matt Wrock
This week I had the honor of speaking at Microsoft Azure’s Opendev, which hosted a variety of speakers from various cool open source projects and I represented Habitat. I raced through a tour of building a distributed Java web application in Habitat.
Read moreNode Scaffolding now supports pre and post build scripts!
We have just released a new version of the Node scaffolding that supports scripts defined in package.json! It is common for Node applications to include scripts in their package.json files like so: package.
Read more“Habitatize Yourself” a Ruby Web Application in Habitat
Editor Note: “Habitatize Yourself” a Ruby Web Application is a YouTube series hosted by Franklin Webber. This series takes you from idea to Habitat-packaged Ruby application in a lunch break. Watch, learn and code along with him and see how Habitat makes building, deploying, and managing modern applications delightful.
Read moreIntroducing Composites
We’re excited to talk about a new preview feature in Habitat that we feel will unlock some more interesting use cases that community members have been wanting for a while. In this post, we’ll talk about composite packages and how they might help you. What is a Composite Package?
Read moreLearning Habitat with the Chef Training Team
Habitat is an open-source project by Chef that moves an application’s configuration, management, and behavior to the application itself, not the infrastructure that the application runs on. Habitat provides simple and consistent ways to deploy and manage cloud-native applications. In addition to the awesome tutorials on www.habitat.
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