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Integrate Chef into your Build and Release pipelines with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services
Today, we are pleased to announce the first release of Chef Integration for Visual Studio Team Services, released to the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Read moreChef Automate now available in the Azure Marketplace

By Michele Todd
Chef and Microsoft are excited to announce the general availability of Chef Automate in the Azure Marketplace. Chef Automate partners with Microsoft Azure to give your operations, development, security and compliance teams a common platform that takes advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and reliability that Azure offers.
Read moreIntroducing Scaffolding and Multi-Service Supervisor in Habitat 0.20.0

By Michael Ducy
We recently released Habitat 0.20.0, which introduced two new features: Scaffolding and Multi-Service Supervisor. These features continue to make it easy to build, deploy, and manage your applications with Habitat. (For a more in-depth look at Multi-Service Supervisors you can read this blog post.
Read moreGuest Post: Why Habitat?
This is a repost of a blog published by Michael Hedgpeth, a Software Architect at NCR Corporation. You can read the original post here. I started my career as a software engineer, and I always love creating a new application and seeing the magic of that application being deployed to production.
Read moreInSpec, Habitat, and Continuous Compliance

By Adam Leff
In my last post, I talked about some of the benefits of containers, how containers can complicate compliance requirements, and how InSpec can help. InSpec provides a human-readable infrastructure and compliance testing language that allows you to scan your hosts, VMs, and containers to ensure your fleet’s compliance. But let’s take this one step further.
Read moreUpgrading to Chef Client 13 – Answers to all your questions

By Thom May
It’s great to see how much excitement there is for the upcoming release of Chef Client 13 on April 10th! We’ve had a bunch of questions about this release. I’ll address some of the frequently asked questions here so you’ll be prepared to upgrade. How do I get Chef Client 13 today?
Read moreWhat’s Cooking: Week of 3/27-3/31

By Jamie Bright
We’re whipping up awesome all over the globe next week. Find us at an event near you and connect with our friendly community of wickedly smart practitioners who want to help you succeed with Chef.
Read moreSimplifying Container Management with Habitat

By Michael Ducy
Containers provide a delightful development experience. It’s easy to download a container image and get started writing code. But it’s a different story when you have to run containers in production at scale. That’s when all the hidden complexities become apparent and the real challenges begin.
Read moreHabitat For Packaging Python Flask Web Services
This is a guest post by our friend Tom McLaughlin, Engineering Advocate at Threat Stack. It was first published on the Threat Stack blog on February 22, 2017. One of the challenges of building open source tools is figuring out how to package and distribute them. This is particularly true with web services.
Read moreChef Automate’s New Release Cadence
Over the last year, we’ve adopted a monthly release cadence for chef-client and chefdk. That regular cadence has served us well, allowing users to predictably plan for and schedule upgrades. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Chef Automate will follow suit and also adopt a monthly release cadence.
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