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Achieve Chef Certification at ChefConf 2017
By Brian Turner
I’m very excited to share the news that we will be offering free Chef certification exams to all registered conference attendees at ChefConf 2017. Take this opportunity to join an elite group of Certified Chef Developers. Showcase your knowledge and proficiency as a Chef user and advance your career! Why Get Chef Certified?
Read moreExclusive Workshops at ChefConf 2017
By Brian Turner
ChefConf 2017, May 22-24 in Austin, TX is the place to be for the DevOps community! As an attendee, you’ll join a very engaged group of practitioners interested in learning and sharing all things automation and DevOps.
Read moreWatch: 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.
Read moreWriting 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.
Read moreChef Certification – New Badges and Updates
By Brian Turner
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.
Read moreMonitoring 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.
Read moreWhat 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.
Read moreLearn Chef Fundamentals with Udemy
By Brian Turner
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.
Read morePrepare for Chef Certification with Linux Academy
By Brian Turner
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.
Read moreWebinars that rocked in 2016
By Jamie Bright
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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