Part one of a four-part series. Review the overall challenges businesses face in the marketplace and how to gauge where you stand.

Part two of a four-part series. Explore the role of automated compliance solutions and discuss which industry metrics demonstrate your successful efforts to mitigate risk.

Part three of a four-part series. Discover industry metrics that demonstrate you’re shipping faster successfully. We’ll explore why continuous delivery is about more than just having build pipelines.

Part four of a four-part series. Discover how to decrease change failure rates. Join us to learn how to achieve resiliency by optimizing for failure recovery.

Chef Automate makes it easy to apply necessary patches and ensure they are vetted against introducing unintended risk to your mission-critical applications. Discover how your teams can spend their time innovating instead of scrambling to patch systems.

Hear how and why Texas A&M leverages Chef software to automate their environments, ensuring that servers are configured consistently and able to be validated against the regulatory requirements Universities need to follow.

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, explains Ohai’s plugin structure, walks through the core Ohai plugins, and shows you how to build and test a custom plugin. Finally, he talks about some further refinements you can add to the implementation.

Andre Elizondo, Technical Evangelist & Bakh Inamov, Field Solutions Architect discuss the different components of Chef Automate and talk about how it unifies Chef, InSpec, and Habitat into a comprehensive automation strategy for any company in today’s digital world.

Ian Henry and Michael Ducy will show you how Habitat makes building, deploying, and running your applications in containers simple, no matter how complex the production environment. 

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, will show you techniques that bring elegance to a cookbook’s tests. You’ll learn how to eliminate redundancy, rebuild common patterns into helpers, and extract those helpers into a portable library.

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, will show you some approaches to testing complex recipes. He’ll explain mocking and stubbing and then apply those techniques to verify recipes that use search, resource guards, and helper methods.

Chef is built in Ruby – a conscious choice for its great flexibility and developer friendliness. For some people, learning the language can feel difficult because most examples lack your perspective as a Chef practitioner. In this interactive webinar, we invite you to follow along in your favorite editor as we dive through the source code to teach you core Ruby concepts.

Learn about Chef’s modular and flexible approach to certification. We explain why we use “badges” and how this allows us to be agile to change within Chef’s product portfolio and evolution of the wider ecosystem.

Explore how InSpec can improve compliance across your applications and infrastructure.

An overview of the Chef Server–how it’s designed, how it’s packaged, and general advice on operating it at scale (monitoring, troubleshooting, etc). We’ll talk about each of the Chef server components and how they fit together. Next, we’ll explain the Omnibus system, which lets you build native packages for different platforms. Finally, we’ll show you a few troubleshooting techniques.

Discover multiple techniques for retrieving secrets from Vault using Chef. As infrastructure increases in complexity, so to does our need to secure it. Watch to learn how you can use Chef and Vault to secure your infrastructure and accelerate application delivery.

Aaron Kalin of DNSimple goes over the lessons learned in budgeting, hiring, and onboarding their first ever apprentice along with why and how you might want to start a similar program at your company. Aaron will conclude with an update of where their apprentice is now and answer any questions you might have.

Nathen Harvey, VP of Community Development at Chef, sits down with the 2016 Awesome Community Chefs and talk about what makes the Chef Community special and discuss the upcoming Chef Community Summits.</>