This week the Chef team is at Cisco’s biggest customer event of the year, Cisco Live in San Diego! We’ve joined 20,000+ attendees to learn more about Cisco’s products and roadmap and to meet with users, operators and developers who are interested in how Chef and Cisco are working together.

Ohai Chefs! Today we have released Chef Server 11.1.7, which contains the following security updates: OpenSSL 1.0.1m PostgreSQL 9.2.10 nginx 1.8.0 Please note that this update applies only to the Open Source Chef Server 11 product. Enterprise Chef 11 and Chef Server 12 have previously received these updates.

These days there are lots of folks talking about DevOps. We read about DevOps in the Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, and in endless Gartner and Forrester reports. We’re told we must have DevOps for our organization to survive against our competitors.

Or: Writing Ruby test code to verify Unix/Linux systems for auditing purposes Many organizations must adhere to PCI-DSS requirements, or similar standards. However, those standards are often not specific, so we cannot rely on them to give implementation details.

“We needed to make sure that we can go from on-prem to cloud very, very easily and rapidly.” -Sameer Doshi, kCura We recently worked together with our friends at Microsoft to spotlight an incredible success story at kCura, an eDiscovery company based in Chicago.

Ohai Chefs! I’m pleased to announce that Chef Server 12.1.0-rc.1 is now available for download. Here are some of this release’s highlights: * Significant performance improvements. * Policyfiles and cookbook artifacts are complete and are enabled by default. * Server API Versioning: API `0` is now deprecated, and current API version level is `1`.

Are you building software with Chef Omnibus? Do your packages need to run multiple runit services? Then Omnibus-ctl may be for you! Omnibus-ctl is a massively useful tool you can use to run common commands in Chef Omnibus packages. What is Chef Omnibus?

We will be hosting the Chef Community Summit on October 14 and 15 in Seattle, Washington and hope to see you there. This marks the fifth year for the Chef Community Summit and it has proven to be one of the most engaging events of the year for the Chef Community.

The Velocity Conference holds a special place in the hearts of Awesome Chefs everywhere. For many of us, DevOps was born with John Allspaw and Paul Hammond’s 10+ Deploys Per Day at Velocity 2009.