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Chef InSpec
Hosted Chef Set to Get a Database and Infrastructure Upgrade

By Mark Cavins
We are migrating our Elastic Search to Open Search on manage.chef.io. This blog post covers the details about the impact and our maintenance window.
Read moreChef InSpec Best Practices: #1 Scaling Infrastructure Testing
See how Chef InSpec can be used to test infrastructure, security, and compliance policies across heterogeneous IT estates.
Read moreReducing Multiple Network Calls with Chef InSpec Cloud Resource Packs

By Sathish
Reducing network calls from cloud resources to cloud providers.
Read moreInfrastructure Testing and Compliance with Chef and Terraform
This blog discusses how modern configuration management and provisioning tools, such as Chef and Terraform, use the concepts of infrastructure as code and policy as code to deploy secure instances in the cloud.
Read moreThe Best Developers are Lazy
The best developers are lazy, but that’s because they automate repetitive tasks.
Read moreAn Introduction to Chef InSpec Waivers
Chef InSpec waivers enable the user to provide justification for skipping controls to which they knowingly are not within compliance.
Read moreDeconstructing Compliance and Security – How is it Different?
The blog discusses how compliance and security differ and how Chef can help you achieve compliance while maintaining a secure infrastructure.
Read moreChef InSpec – Where Compliance and Security Blend into DevOps World
Guidelines on how to start with the Chef InSpec on the technical side.
Read moreExtending InSpec Resources: Core Resource Inheritance
A developer’s guide to extending Chef InSpec through Ruby inheritance of core resources to re-use the core functionality in custom resources.
Read moreHosted Chef Scheduled Maintenance and Downtime January 6, 2022

By Mark Cavins
Hosted Chef, your gateway to managing Chef infrastructure in the cloud, is set to receive an upgrade to its database. In order to facilitate this upgrade, we will be migrating all content to a new version of PostgreSQL. We will also be upgrading the application to Chef Infra server 14.10.
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