This is a guest post by Brock Spradling, Director of Sales and Marketing at Ostrato  On March 12th we’re excited to bring together OpenWhere, Chef and Ostrato on a webinar to discuss how this geospatial analytics startup is able to compete in the hyper-competitive defense marketplace.

Ohai Chefs, Today, we’re excited to announce that Chef Client 12.1.0 is now available. This release brings with it many new features and bug fixes. Below are some of the highlights. For more information, check out the changelog, release notes, and doc changes.

Last week we announced a new partnership with Microsoft, which was driven in large part by the intense demand we’re seeing in the enterprise for Chef x Azure, Chef x Powershell, and Chef x Visual Studio.

This is the fourth entry in our ongoing, bi-weekly series examining our customer Standard Bank’s DevOps journey. You can read the first entry here, the second entry here and the third entry here. Continue below for part four.

Manage 1.11.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes fixes for reporting dashboard errors, changes to make running Manage behind a load balancer more usable, and various other bug fixes and improvements. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

Today we have released Chef Server 12.0.5. This release includes further updates to provide API support for key rotation, policy file updates, and LDAP-related fixes to user update. You can find installers on our downloads site. ## Updating Users This release fixes Issue 66.

This is not urgent, but you may encounter SSL verification errors when using vagrant directly, or vagrant through test kitchen. Special Thanks to Joe Damato of Package Cloud for spending his time debugging this issue with me the other day.

We’re five weeks away from ChefConf 2015 and we’re filling seats fast, so, if you haven’t already, register today and guarantee your seat at the epicenter of DevOps.

This post concludes our bi-weekly blog series on Awesome Chef Paul Comtois’ DevOps Story. You can read the final part below, while part one is here and part two is here. Thank you to Pauly for sharing his tale with us!