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Enterprises today have to adapt to changing needs in application and infrastructure management – and Chef Automate helps empower organizations to embrace modern software practices such as DevOps and continuous delivery to build, deploy and manage software to meet customer expectations.

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Test Kitchen and Chef Provisioning drivers for Azure now work in US Government and Sovereign cloud environments

This post first appeared on Medium. As an open-source maintainer one of the hardest things is getting access to relevant test environments to test your bits. Especially when that test environment is in a territory or environment you don’t have access to.

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How to get the most out of your ChefConf experience

I was visiting with a customer last week and was asked a pretty simple question: How do I get the most out of my ChefConf experience? With ChefConf now less than a month away this is a question that you might be asking, too.

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Managing DevOps Teams (new rules for radical management)

Last week, Jamie Bright published the blog post, “Why DevOps is for everyone, not just a single team.

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Continuous Automation: Managing Hybrid Infrastructure in a DevOps World

The increasing pace of infrastructure technology innovations–the shift to virtual, cloud, containers, and microservices–has changed the meaning of the word “hybrid”. Automation and management solutions that only address one particular infrastructure type or deployment architecture may be well-suited to practices today, but they’re likely to become opinionated relics that reflect the practices of their time.

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Why DevOps is for everyone, not just a single team

DevOps doesn’t care what industry your company operates in, what department you sit in, or what title you have. That’s because DevOps isn’t for just one industry, just one team or even just one person.

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Quantifying DevOps Outcomes: Efficient Service Stability

Last week, we hosted a live webinar, “Efficient Service Stability” – the final episode in our four part short-form, interactive series, “Quantifying DevOps Outcomes.” For me, this series has been a fun improv exercise in working with audience feedback to figure out where we should focus our time together.

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Chef at DevOpsDays Vancouver

The Chef team was at DevOpsDays Vancouver, March 31 – April 1. This was the 3rd year of this event and it was a wealth of awesome interactions with the DevOps community. The morning presentations included a talk by our own, Nell Shamrell, about open source governance.

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Adding compliance assurance into DevOps practices to ship software faster with less risk

Software-based services — apps! — are now the primary way a company connects with customers. A company’s best chance in competing for a larger piece of the market is by shipping software faster. Teams need to continuously deliver infrastructure to run applications, regardless of location or computing environment.

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Computing DevOps Summit and Awards

On 22nd March I had the pleasure along with a few other Chefs of being invited to the Computing DevOps Excellence Awards hosted at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel in London.

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