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Habitat.sh Governance and Issue Tracking

Hopefully our previous blog and discourse posts have given you some general understanding around the way we govern the Habitat project. But, as a group of people hoping to share what we’re building with a larger audience we know we can always be doing more to “pull back the curtain”.

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Triage and Contribution Process

A super common question that comes up in lots of FOSS communities is “How do I contribute?”. While most projects have a file like a CONTRIBUTING.md or instructions in a README on how to join in on the open source fun, this question still gets asked quite frequently.

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The 3 Must See Blog Posts You Missed Last Week

With all the buzz of ChefConf last week, you may have missed some of our announcements. Get in the know and check out these three must see posts: InSpec launches support for cloud platform assessments Use InSpec for cloud native security and integration testing with three new open-source incubation projects: inspec-aws, inspec-azure, and inspec-vmware.

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ChefConf 2017 in retrospect

Wow! ChefConf 2017 has been wrapped for a week now and we’re slowly recovering from all of the conference festivities. For those that were able to make it, we hope you had a blast and that on returning home you were energized to fuel the love of Habitat in your environments!

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Packaging an App from Scratch with Scaffolding

Hey there, fellow developer, let’s make ourselves a quick Express app and wrap it up in a Habitat package. Ready? Me too, I like to learn. We’re going to want Habitat installed on our system, but that’s not too hard. Follow the instructions on the Set up your environment page and come on back here.

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Chef Announcements: Lighting the Path from Here to There

Technology shifts, such as the moves toward cloud-native applications and container-first architectures, make it clear that tomorrow will look very different from today. But how to get from here to there? Today Chef announced a host of new product features, partner offerings, and skill-building opportunities that, taken together, light a path for enterprises to follow.

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Enterprise Ready Habitat Plans Now Available

Today at ChefConf 2017 we are excited to launch a new program for enterprise content around Habitat and announce a first set of “enterprise ready” Habitat plans. The plans are all open source and serve as best practice references to guide you as you write plans for your own applications.

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Scaffolding: Build and package apps

“The best plan is to barely have one at all.” – Ancient Habitat proverb Over the past several months we’ve been working on a feature of the build system that focuses on developers which helps them bundle up their applications to be run, managed, even updated with Habitat. We call this Scaffolding.

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Builder: Habitat Build Service

When we launched Habitat last June we also announced that we had begun development of a build service which, in conjunction with the Habitat Supervisor, would round out our vision for the future of continuous integration and deployment of applications.

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Chef Community Engineering – Quarterly Update

We’re excited to be in Austin, TX this week for ChefConf. Today we’re hosting a Community Summit so it’s a great time to reflect on some of the amazing things the community and community engineering team at Chef completed in the first three months of the year!

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