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Q&A with the Sous Chefs
By Julian Dunn
Chef sat down with Dan Webb of the Sous Chefs organization recently for a Q&A session. Dan is a winner of a 2018 Awesome Community Chef award for all of his contributions and mentorship to the Chef community. (These answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.) Who are the Sous Chefs?
Read moreAlgoSec Cookbook Certified by the Chef Partner Cookbook Program
By JJ Asghar
I’m pleased to announce that AlgoSec is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the AlgoSec Cookbook. AlgoSec The AlgoSec solution intelligently automates and orchestrates network security policy management to make your enterprise continuously more agile, secure, and compliant.
Read moreInSpec 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.
Read moreA Look at Deploying an Icinga2 Server with Chef Cookbooks
By Todd Durning
The thought of deploying Icinga with Chef is an exciting prospect. You get all the benefits of the flexible monitoring Icinga provides with all the reliability and scalability of Chef’s configuration management. So, when I heard that Icinga had ditched their old monolithic cookbook design, I knew I needed to have a look. What’s new?
Read moreChef Deepens Support for Google Cloud Platform
By James Casey
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 […]
Read moreWhat’s new in Chef 14 and ChefDK 3
By Tim Smithh
At the beginning of April we announced the release of Chef Client 14. Shortly after, I presented a live webinar: What’s new in Chef 14 and ChefDK 3. In case you missed it, watch a recording of the presentation below to see the newest features included in this release. You can download Chef 14 here.
Read moreLet’s use Google Cloud Platform and Chef – ChefConf 2018 Workshop
By JJ Asghar
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a huge ecosystem of products that can make your infrastructure one of the best supported on the planet. Back in October, we announced a new integration between GCP and Chef to support the ever increasing number of Chef customers using GCP.
Read moreKitchen-Docker or Kitchen-Dokken? Using Test Kitchen and Docker for fast cookbook testing
By Seth Thomas
Chef’s Test Kitchen project allows for fast functional testing of infrastructure code.
Read moreCertified: Lenovo CNOS Cookbook
By JJ Asghar
I’m delighted to announce that Lenovo is now part of the Chef Partner Cookbook Program. They have certified the Lenovo CNOS Cookbook. Lenovo CNOS cookbook The Lenovo CNOS cookbook provides a set of recipes and resources for managing Lenovo switches. The cookbook provides resources to upload images, upload/download configurations, and VLAN provisioning.
Read moreIcinga 2 Cookbooks: Breaking up the All-In-One Cookbook
By Blerim Sheqa
For vendors, configuration management has become as important as the software itself. As a vendor you should take responsibility and provide proper cookbooks for your software that fulfill the requirements for as many users as possible.
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