Continuing our series of posts about the tremendous sessions, workshop, and sponsors at ChefConf 2015, this blog is dedicated to the many career opportunities you can explore at ChefConf, including those at two of our sponsors – Target and Disney.

This post continues our bi-weekly blog series on Awesome Chef Paul Comtois’ DevOps Story. You can read part two in this series below, while part one is here. Context: Pauly Comtois is the VP of DevOps at Hearst Business Media. Before that, he was Chef’s own VP of IT Operations.

Today we released Chef Server 12.0.3. The biggest component of this release is an early implementation of multikey authentication and `chef-server-ctl` commands you can use to build your own key rotation!

This is a guest blog from Kevin Gilpin, CTO @ Conjur, one of our many awesome ChefConf sponsors. Kevin and his team will also be leading a workshop on March 31, detailed in the following post. When it comes to systems documentation for compliance or regulatory purposes, you can hear the engineers groan.

We’ve teamed up with O’Reilly Media on a series of webinars on Business at Web Speed. Last month’s episode featured our own Adam Jacob teaming up with O’Reilly’s Courtney Nash to introduce the key concepts of Business at Web Speed. You can watch a recorded version of their presentation here, including a kitten-infused Q&A session.

Manage 1.9.0 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This release includes packages that work on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and Redhat Enterprise Linux 7, as well as numerous bug fixes and low-severity security updates. As always you can see the public changelog on hosted Chef at https://manage.chef.io/changelog.

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Hopefully by now you’ve all seen the ChefConf session guide and are as pumped for the show as we are. If you haven’t already registered, you still have until Wed., 2/4, to take advantage of early bird ticket prices.

Ohai Chefs! Today we released ChefDK 0.4.0. As promised in an earlier blog post, this release includes the latest stable version of Chef Client. Other than that, we’ve gone through and updated a lot of packages that ship with ChefDK.  These include: chef 12.0.3 chefspec 4.2.0 chef-provisioning 0.18 chef-provisioning-aws 0.2.1 chef-provisioning-fog 0.12 chef-vault 2.4.