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Watch: Build a Custom Ohai Plugin

On February 1st, I presented a live webinar titled “Build a Custom Ohai Plugin”. Watch the recording below to hear me explain the purpose of Ohai, the structure and language of its plugins, and how you can write a unit test and integration test for your plugin.

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Writing Wrapper Cookbooks

This post first appeared on The Wandering IT Consultant blog. What is a Wrapper Cookbook? Simply put, a wrapper cookbook is just a regular cookbook that includes recipes from other cookbooks.

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Chef Certification – New Badges and Updates

The Chef Certification program currently has three badges available for achieving the Certified Chef Developer level of certification. To reach this level of cert, you must pass the Basic Chef Fluency, Local Cookbook Development, and Extending Chef exams. In early March, we will introduce the Deploying Cookbooks badge.

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Monitoring Disk Space

In 2016, the Chef Support Team marked 147 tickets as being related to inadequate disk space. That’s about one ticket every two days. When your system is out of capacity, usually your system is down. It’s hard to deliver applications at velocity when you’re offline.

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What is Ohai, anyway?

The year was 2007. Cats and all manner of animals on the Internet were reaching out to us, to say hello, in big, bold letters: OH HAI! When I heard Nathen Harvey greet the class in my first Chef training at SURGE 2013, I was taken aback and tickled. He explained that Ohai, not ‘OH HAI!’, is a core tool of Chef.

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Learn Chef Fundamentals with Udemy

The Chef training team is excited to announce our partnership with Udemy and TechnoTrainer. Together, we have developed Chef Fundamentals, a self-directed online course based on our instructor-led Chef Essentials training.

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Prepare for Chef Certification with Linux Academy

The Chef training team is excited to announce that Linux Academy is now offering training to support Chef practitioners interested in becoming a Certified Chef Developer. Linux Academy provides high-quality, in-depth training that is readily available online. This allows you to take a course whenever it is convenient for you.

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Webinars that rocked in 2016

Chef webinars are a great way to learn about new products, integrations, and build your skills as a Chef practitioner. In 2016, we presented more than 30 live webinars to thousands of attendees across the globe.

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Automating compliance for financial services

We’ve been talking about the importance of incorporating compliance into your development workflow for a while now. With Chef Automate, we’ve delivered an enterprise-grade solution for turning compliance policy into code.

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Chef Certification: What it is and how to do it

The Chef Certification Program is an exciting opportunity to deliver more value for your organization and take your career to the next level. Chef skills are in greater demand than ever.

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