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CSG International and How DevOps Delivers Results

Six years ago, CSG International, the company that provides backend SaaS support to major telecom companies, started their DevOps transformation journey to modernize how they develop and run software. And for the past six years, CSG has made significant strides in transforming to a high-performing IT organization.

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Chef Open Source Community News – June 2018

Here’s what happened in June across the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Chef This month we released Chef Client 14.2.0, the latest and greatest in the Chef 14 series.

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Running Chef and InSpec with Habitat – How We Made that Demo

Editor’s Note: ChefConf 2018 ‘How We Did It’ Series Welcome to part two of our How We Did It series based on demos from the ChefConf 2018 Product Vision & Announcements keynote presentation. In case you missed it, review part one: Habitat and Kubernetes.

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InSpec GCP Deep Dive

As recently announced Chef has deepened support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by adding InSpec integration. Furthermore, the InSpec GCP resource pack is freely available here – suggestions (and contributions) welcome! Before looking at InSpec GCP let’s ensure we have the necessary prerequisites in place.

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ChefConf 2018 Keynote Video: Product Vision & Announcements

It’s hard to believe ChefConf 2018 was nearly a month ago! We were excited to welcome Chef customers and community members to Chicago and share some of the exciting product developments we’ve been working over the last year.

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Understanding Singular and Plural InSpec resources

InSpec enables you to automate compliance by expressing the expected state of many things. A common need is to find a group of things, then examine them in detail. If you are using the cloud, you know that cloud security is paramount, but difficult to keep enforced.

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Chef Open Source Community News – May 2018

Here are this month’s updates from the Chef, Habitat, and InSpec open-source communities. Despite the fact that we at Chef Software were busy preparing for ChefConf – which had its own raft of product announcements, including the release of Chef Automate 2 – we also managed to accomplish a lot in the open-source world.

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InSpec now available in Azure Cloud Shell

This week brings us into another delightful ChefConf! We’ve made a lot of great announcements about enhancements and features that have been added across our suite of automation tools, and in Chef Automate itself with Automate 2.0. We also announced that Chef Software is now even more tightly integrated with the Microsoft Azure platform.

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Chef Deepens Support for Google Cloud Platform

Building on the work we announced last fall to help you provision GCP resources with Chef cookbooks, and in honor of ChefConf 2018, Chef and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have been working together in several exciting ways: Extending coverage of InSpec for popular GCP resources Adding Habitat support for Google Container Registry Offering additional Chef […]

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Introducing Chef Workstation

We’re excited to announce the release of Chef Workstation, providing everything you need to get started with Chef with a simple one-click installation. Ad-Hoc Configuration Management with chef-run Chef Workstation comes with the new chef-run utility, which can be used to execute chef code on any remote system accessible via SSH or WinRM.

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