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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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The Ruby Behind Chef

On September 14th I presented a live webinar on The Ruby Behind Chef. There is quite a bit of Ruby behind Chef and it is rather complex. Watch the recording below to hear me explain core Ruby topics by creating our own version of Chef: T-Rex Chef.

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3 reasons to Invest in Your Chef Education

It has been a beautiful summer here in the Pacific Northwest. With fall arriving in just a few weeks, my attention has turned to “back to school” activities. Here in the office, this has me thinking about ways the Chef training program supports our practitioners and partners.

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Create a Windows Server 2016 Vagrant box with Chef and Packer

Matt Wrock has a new article in the Skills Library, “Create a Windows Server 2016 Vagrant box with Chef and Packer.” In it, Matt talks about how to use Chef and Packer together to create a Windows Server 2016 on a Vagrant box.

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Chef Launches Certification and Training Program Amid Increasing Demand for DevOps Skills

New Certification Program Provides Developers, System Administrators, and IT Professionals with Automation Skills at the Core of DevOps AUSTIN, TX – July 12, 2016 – From ChefConf 2016, Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced the Chef Certification Program, providing IT practitioners with the tools and resources necessary to build modern automation expertise.

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Chef Delivery Tutorial on Learn Chef

Today we released a refresh to our Chef Delivery tutorial on Learn Chef. The refresh features a simpler, automated setup procedure and greater emphasis on building the skills you need to get started with Chef Delivery. The automated setup, which runs on AWS, brings up a fully-functional Chef Delivery installation in minutes.

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Chef Delivery at Ooyala

Ooyala has been using Chef to configure and provision its deployment framework, Atlantis, for the past year and a half. Now, Ooyala is beginning to incorporate Chef Delivery into its release process. Read about their project in the Skills Library article, Chef Delivery at Ooyala.

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ChefDK 0.10.0 Released

Greetings!  We released ChefDK 0.10.0 today and it can be obtained from our downloads page. This release includes the following new/updated dependencies: InSpec version 0.9.2 Kitchen InSpec version 0.9.0 Knife Windows 1.1.1 Chef Provisioning 1.5.0 Chef Provisioning AWS 1.6.

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How to Be a Secure Chef

Many Chef users are interested in security. To answer the questions you’ve raised, we’ve put a new article called “How to be a Secure Chef” in the Chef skills library. You’ll find suggestions for securing the Chef server, the Chef client, and your workstation.

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