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Happy Birthday OWCA! Plus the Latest Chef Innovations for AWS Customers

By Matt Carter
Last year at AWS re:Invent, Chef was excited to join Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels to announce the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). As the first provider of configuration management through OpsWorks, Chef has a long standing commitment to the success of AWS customers.
Read moreHabitat on Microsoft Azure OpenDev

By Michele Todd
Microsoft continues to embrace open source. “We’ve been on this journey for the last few years now,” says Rohan Kumar, general manager, Database Systems, Microsoft. “It’s really a company about choice right now. We really want to meet customers where they are.
Read moreChefConf 2018 Call for Presenters is Open
ChefConf is the largest community reunion and educational event for teams on the journey to becoming fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations. In other words, you and your team! ChefConf 2018 will take place May 22-25 in Chicago, Illinois and we want you to present! The ChefConf call for presenters (CFP) is now open.
Read moreChef Community Summit – London

By Mandi Walls
Last week we held our fourth annual Chef Community Summit in London on Tuesday and Wednesday. As our primary annual event in the EMEA region, folks from the UK, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, and Austria, in addition to the US and Japan attend the London Summit.
Read moreChef Community Summits – Seattle & New York
Last week the Chef Community hosted two summits in the US. Monday and Tuesday in Seattle, Thursday and Friday in New York. These Summits both included a day of open space discussions with topics proposed and selected by the participants and a day of hacking on various projects.
Read moreConfiguration and Compliance as Code with VMware and Chef

By JJ Asghar
I recently returned from a week in Las Vegas at the VMworld 2017 conference. Besides the pleasure of speaking about Chef solutions with VMworld attendees, I had the honor of speaking with Alan Renouf of VMware about some new technology that VMware and Chef were bringing to market.
Read moreAnnouncing new integrations with VMware on AWS

By JJ Asghar
We are pleased to announce the release of two new integrations with VMware on AWS! We have created both knife-vcenter and kitchen-vcenter to take advantage of VMware on AWS and help drive your developers’ stories. Leverage kitchen-vcenter to drive your cookbook development in AWS, and promote it to your Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).
Read moreJoin us for the 2017 Chef Community Summits
The Chef Community Summit is a gathering of professionals interested in advancing the state of the art of Continuous Automation with Chef. This October, we will be hosting three Community Summits. They will be held in Seattle October 2-3, in New York City October 5-6, and in London October 10-11.
Read moreHappy Birthday, Habitat!

By Tasha Drew
Happy Birthday, Habitat! Last night marked Habitat’s first birthday party, celebrated with the project’s core team, which flew from their various distributed locations, local community members, and friends of the project.
Read moreChef at JFrog SwampUP 2017

By Julian Dunn
Supermarket Integration with Artifactory Hot on the heels of ChefConf 2017, Chef headed to Napa, CA late last week for JFrog’s SwampUP conference at the beautiful Meritage Resort and Spa. With its intimate size (300 attendees) and highly curated talks, SwampUP is one of our favorite conferences to attend.
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