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We’re continuing Michael Hüttermann’s guest blog series on DevOps and its ability to streamline software development and delivery. Part two explains DevOps in a ‘nutshell’…see Part I and Part III for more. Part II.

Lucas Welch

Hey folks, With the help of Jon we have identified two regressions in Chef Client 11.10.2: CHEF-5048 & CHEF-5052. Today we’ve released a new version 11.10.4 which fixes these two regressions. If you are using application cookbook, you will run into issues similar to the one below if you are using 11.10.0 or 11.10.2.

This post was originally published on Goat Can. Destruction of silos is all the rage in DevOps and has been since the beginning of the movement. Patrick Debois wrote a very intelligent piece on why silos exist and how they came about as a management strategy.

Michael Ducy

The Chef Community is full of excellent people with cool insights, experiences, and knowledge to share. From #ChefConf to the Developer Summit to Meetups, exchanging ideas is inherent to what our Community is all about. This principle extends to our blog, where we like to feature voices from the Community from time to time.

Lucas Welch

Continuing our blog series highlighting each of the #ChefConf workshops and the unique learning opportunity they each present, today’s post puts the spotlight on Dragos Dumitriu’s “Introduction to Kanban for IT Operations and DevOps”, which will focus on helping people and teams in operations roles develop a new perspective and a new mindset that is […]

Lucas Welch

Hello! Recently, Chef became aware of a security vulnerability in the version of libyaml we were using. We were nearing release for several of our products, and took the opportunity to do a sweep of some others.

The following items are new for Enterprise Chef 11.1.1 and/or are changes from previous versions. Provisional IPV6 Support Support for running the Enterprise Chef server in an IPV6 infrastructure and with IPV6 clients.

Management Console 1.1.1 has been released. Changes and Improvements Update URL on data bag item deletes. Redirect properly on data bag item deletes. Truncate cookbook names that are too long for run list editor. Fixed loading of additional roles in run list editor. Fixed tooltips for disabled sidebar actions.

This security release includes fixes for the following: libyaml 0.1.5 [CVE-2013-6393] – ml_parser_scan_tag_uri function in scanner.c performs incorrect cast OpenSSL 1.0.1f [CVE-2013-4353] – allows remote TLS servers to cause a denial of service Nginx 1.4.