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Explore DevOps, Infrastructure, Security and More at ChefConf 21: Online
Explore different tracks at ChefConf ‘21: Online with 30+ sessions on DevOps, Security and Compliance, Infrastructure Management, and Chef Product Updates.
Read more5 reasons why ChefConf ‘21 is a must-attend event
ChefConf returns this fall and is celebrating a noteworthy milestone; the event is now 10 years old! Along with commemorating this occasion, ChefConf ‘21 will feature an abundance of panels and discussions surrounding all subjects related to the Chef platform.
Read moreAn awesome lineup of speakers is waiting for you at ChefConf ‘21: Online
ChefConf ‘21: Online is coming up soon and it’s an event you don’t want to miss! We have lined up some of the brightest minds from DevOps and IT from companies like Google, SAP, PagerDuty, HashiCorp, Netflix, and many more.
Read moreCome celebrate our 10th ChefConf with us!
September 7-9, 2021 will mark the 10th annual ChefConf! The journey from 2012 to 2021 has been a ride full of excitement, sleepless nights, innovative talks, and all kinds of fun. From “Doing DevOps Right” to “Chef helps teams accelerate their DevOps journeys” this year, we have aimed to be a medium for thousands of DevOps and IT folks to learn, interact, and expand their knowledge through keynotes, technical sessions, networking, hack days, charitable events, and more. We thank all of the #ChefFriends in our community; you have been an integral part of the success of ChefConf.
Read more[eBook] 10 Ways to Optimize Your Chef Infrastructure Automation Investment
Over time, Chef Infrastructure Automation has become more powerful. Be it creating your own custom resources to simplify writing cookbooks or implementing or monitoring real-time data across environments, there is a myriad of ways for you to make the best use of your infrastructure automation. This eBook covers key best practices for creating better automation.
Read moreProduct Announcement: Chef Habitat 1.5 Now Available

By Mike Krasnow
Chef Habitat provides automation capabilities for defining, packaging, and delivering applications to almost any environment with any operating system, on any platform. Over the last year, we’ve seen organizations like Alaska Airlines, Rakuten, Walmart, and Rizing address a broad range of application delivery automation challenges with Habitat.
Read moreBase Plans Refresh is Coming to Habitat Core Plans!
Hello, friendly Habicats! We will be refreshing the Base Plans of Core Plans on Tuesday, January 29th. Let’s go over what this means for us and, more important, what it means for you. Base Plans 101 Currently, there are about 600 Habitat plans under the Core Origin on Builder.
Read moreHabitat® and Chef® Automate for Applications

By Corey Scobie
A little over two years ago, the Habitat project was begun, with the idea that applications can move much faster if we design automation from the application’s point of view. This took the form of an abstraction, and a contract, between the application layer and the underlying infrastructure beneath it.
Read moreAnnouncing General Availability of Chef Workstation

By Julian Dunn
We are excited to announce that Chef Workstation, which we first released in beta at ChefConf 2018, is now generally available.
Read moreAnnouncing InSpec 3.0

By Nick Rycar
We’re excited to announce the release of InSpec 3.0! Since the last major revision of InSpec in February, InSpec has been downloaded 49270 times, we’ve merged more than 330 pull requests from 85 contributors, and added dozens of new resources. The 3.0 release includes a ton of bug fixes, usability improvements, and additional platform support.
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