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A Preview of new Chef support for AWS customers
By Matt Carter
Last year at re:Invent 2016, Amazon announced the availability of OpsWorks for Chef Automate (OWCA). Chef, available as a service to Amazon customers, opened up continuous automation to a whole new generation of customers creating cloud-native applications.
Read moreAutomate Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Mike Krasnow
It’s been almost a full year since we announced AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate – a native AWS service that provides Chef Automate and Chef Server managed by Amazon. In that time, we’ve found that customers love how quick it is to get started and how easy it is to maintain.
Read moreManage AWS Instances in Multiple Accounts with OpsWorks for Chef Automate
By Sean Carolan
Many of our users have requested an easy way to bootstrap and manage AWS instances across multiple accounts. In the past, this was difficult to achieve because of strict access restrictions between AWS accounts.
Read moreChef Automate Release – October 2017
Last week Chef announced Chef Automate 1.7, a notable release that integrates remote compliance scanning capabilities into Chef Automate. Now, organizations can add nodes and execute ad hoc remote compliance scans from Chef Automate without the need for an agent to be deployed on the node.
Read moreUsing Habitat to Build the Industrial Cloud at GE Digital
GE Digital has undertaken an ambitious effort to make possible a new generation of cloud-native industrial applications. With Predix, GE’s industrial cloud platform, GE business units and industrial companies can build and run applications to deal with all sorts of substantial machinery, ranging from power generation equipment to airplane engines to locomotives.
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 moreHabitat Integration for VSTS in the Visual Studio Marketplace
We are pleased to announce the first release of Habitat Integration for Visual Studio Team Services, released to the Visual Studio Marketplace. This extension brings the power and portability of Habitat to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). It contains a number of tasks that allow developers to package and release / export applications using Habitat.
Read moreIHG’s Strategy for Delivering Change at Velocity with Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
Automation Drives Velocity The world has changed, and with it so too has the way we do business. We now can manage nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives from our phones. Therefore, convenience has become the currency companies use to attract customers.
Read moreApplication Packaging for Modern 12 Factor Applications
By Michael Ducy
One of the defining characteristics of Habitat is the packaging technology. Packaging is in no way a new concept. Operating System vendors have solved this problem for sometime using tools like RPM, Debian Packages, Yum, Apt, etc.
Read morePurposeful Patching with Chef Automate
By Nick Rycar
As the environments we manage grow, so too does the potential risk to our systems as new vulnerabilities and exploits seem to crop up on a regular basis. As such, a question folks frequently ask is, “how can I use Chef to apply patches to the systems I manage?
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