Update: We’ve just released 12.4.3, which fixes a couple of 12.4.2 regressions on Windows: The Windows chef installer was much bigger than 12.4.1 (it’s back down under 80MB). chef-client raised an error when run as a Windows service (bug) Details on the original release (12.4.

This is a guest blog from HP’s Phil Prasek and Gunjan Kamle detailing the integration between Chef and HP OneView for provisioning bare metal resources. What if you could bring the simplicity of public cloud infrastructure as code to your private data center?

Today I’m going to share a story about an incident we had here at Chef on September 9, 2015. Normally we don’t make a public blog post about an internal-only incident, but this particular issue had some contributing factors that are related to our ChefDK project, and affected the release schedule for version 0.8.0.

Chef has long since offered great integrations with VMware’s vSphere product line, including knife-vsphere and chef-provisioning-vsphere (which also includes a Test Kitchen driver!). These integrations, created by awesome members of the Chef community, allow VMware administrators and end users to consume and manage their VMware resources from the comfort of their standard Chef tools.

Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Marketplace 0.0.2 has been released and new AMI’s are available on the Amazon Marketplace.  Here are some of this release’s highlights: New chef-marketplace Omnibus package Chef Analytics support New chef-marketplace-ctl commands Chef Server, Manage, and Reporting packages have been updated.

Every October, Chef users descend upon Seattle for my favorite tech event of the year. The Community Summit is an Open Spaces format “unconference” where the participants run the show. Events like these are the heart of Open Source. The best parts of the Chef ecosystem are born here.

Test Kitchen makes it easy for you to test cookbooks on a variety of platforms. With Test Kitchen, you can quickly create test nodes, converge them, and then run tests against them to verify their state.

In the Northwest we’ve gone very quickly from summer to Fall.  And what a summer it was.  In fact, 2015 is clearly shaping up to be a record year across all of our key metrics: revenue, new customers, and partnerships.

DFJ Growth Leads Series E Round, Hewlett Packard Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in Chef SEATTLE – September 9, 2015 – Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced it has closed a $40 million Series E funding round.