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Chef Community Engineering – 2016 – A Year in Review

Sure, it’s a little late for a retrospective on 2016 but, as they say, better late than never! Here’s a look back at some of the amazing things the Chef Community Engineering team helped deliver in 2016.

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Chef is heading to Container World 2017 with the Habitat Team

As containers continue to take over modern application architectures, it’s hard to cut through the noise and figure out what are the emerging best practices. That’s why Chef is excited to be participating in Container World 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, February 21-23.

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Habitat and Docker

This is a repost of a blog published on Medium by our friend Ben Dang. Everyone knows how to Docker, right? Here is a typical scenario below. # Build an Image (docker) $ docker build -t bdangit/helloworld .

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Chef’s 2016 Year in… Haiku

Happy New Year! Most people don’t care if a company wishes them greetings on a holiday (some even prefer one less email during a break). And most people don’t care much about how many employees a company hired or the number of new customers added in a given year. So we want to be respectful.

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Habitat application portability and understanding dynamic linking of ELF binaries

This post was originally published on the Hurry Up and Wait! blog on December 30, 2017. I do not come from a classical computer science background and have spent the vast majority of my career working with Java, C# and Ruby – mostly on Windows.

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Continuous Delivery of Habitat Packages with Chef Automate

This post was originally published on the SysAdvent blog on December 21, 2017. Introduction Habitat by Chef is a framework for building, deploying, and running any kind of application. Chef’s blog has a good introductory series on the concepts behind Habitat, and the Habitat tutorial is a good place to start learning.

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Top 10 Most Viewed Blogs of 2016

In 2016, we published more than 200 blog posts, highlighting major releases and announcements, partnerships and integrations, skill-building and how to articles, and more. Here are the top ten most viewed posts of 2016.

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Why Habitat? The Habitat Supervisor and its Environment

This is the fourth post in our series, Why Habitat? You can catch up with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In our last post, we began covering the Habitat supervisor. We explored how it allows you to manage the runtime life cycle of your application.

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Why Habitat? The Supervisor and Run Lifecyle

This is the third post in our series, Why Habitat? You can catch up with Part 1 and Part 2. In our previous posts, we talked about packaging your applications and compared results between packaging using a Dockerfile vs using Habitat. The core of Habitat packaging is the plan.

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Chef at DevOpsDays Berlin

The Event In its fourth year, Chef was again sponsoring DevOpsDays Berlin. The event was held in the cosy Kalkscheune in Berlin-Mitte, giving at a quite homey atmosphere. Chef had a strong presence as a platinum sponsor and with presenters like Nathen Harvey and Eric Maxwell.

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