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New Book: ‘Managing Windows Servers with Chef’ by John Ewart
By Lucas Welch
The Chef Community delivers yet again. John Ewart, a system architect, software developer, and lecturer based in California, recently published, “Managing Windows Servers with Chef” which can be purchased here.
Read moreSecurity @Adobe Details Chef-Automated Security Testing
By Lucas Welch
Our good friends at Adobe have been awesome about providing technical insight into their use of Chef in the past. Yesterday, their lead security strategist Peleus Uhley, continued this trend with a very informative blog detailing Chef-automated security testing in Adobe’s private cloud infrastructure.
Read moreBerkshelf Workflow
By Seth Vargo
This article is cross-posted from https://sethvargo.com/berkshelf-workflow/. There are only two fundamental assumptions for working with Berkshelf: 1. Each cookbook is a uniquely packaged and versioned artifact 2.
Read moreNew Book: Chef in Action by Dimitri Aivaliotis
By Lucas Welch
Awesome Chefs make many tremendous contributions to the betterment of the entire Chef Community each and every day. Today is no different and in this post we’ll highlight an especially notable achievement by Dimitri Aivaliotis, a system architect and Chef contributor based in Zurich.
Read moreTech Leaders Showcase Chef Support at #ChefConf 2014
By Lucas Welch
Chef is Collaborating with AWS, Google, HP Cloud, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft, Rackspace, VMware, and Many More to Define how Businesses Deliver Software and Services to Customers SEATTLE – April 14, 2014 – In advance of #ChefConf 2014, Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced that the company is working with a diverse group […]
Read moreChef Delivers DevOps Automation for Windows and Microsoft Azure
By Lucas Welch
Integration of Enterprise Chef with Windows PowerShell and Microsoft Azure Enables Developers to Automate Workloads and Accelerate Migration to the Azure Cloud SEATTLE – April 3, 2014 – From the Microsoft Build Conference, Chef™, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced new Windows and Microsoft Azure automation capabilities, empowering developers to accelerate software and […]
Read moreChef Supermarket – The New Community Site
We’re Finally Making Progress On A Better Community Site Experience Chef is awesome. Our existing community site experience…OK, but not awesome. We announced plans to revamp and open source the community site at the Community Summit in November and now were making good progress on that with Supermarket.
Read moreWriting Libraries in Chef Cookbooks
By Julian Dunn
One of the most useful extensions available to Chef cookbook authors is the ability to write and use any arbitrary Ruby code as a library. These libraries are often no more than a few lines long, but can also be as simple or as sophisticated as you want.
Read moreEvolution of Cookbook Development
In this post, I will explore some development patterns that I’ve seen (and done!) with Chef cookbooks, and then explain how we can evolve to a new level of cookbook development. The examples here come from Chef’s new chef-splunk cookbook, which is a refactored version of an old splunk42 cookbook.
Read moreChef’s Splunk Cookbook
Today I’d like to share a cookbook that we’ve developed, chef-splunk. This cookbook replaces an old internal Splunk cookbook that has served us well for quite some time, but that one was becoming more difficult to modify and extend. There is a community splunk cookbook already.
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