On Thursday, March 26th Hosted Chef experienced a degradation in service where logging into oc-id, Hosted Chef’s identify service, periodically failed. This failure meant that it was difficult to login into Supermarket, Hosted Chef’s profile page, and oc-id itself, since each of these systems rely on oc-id for their authentication tokens.

Today we’ve released an initial version of audit-cis. This is an “audit mode only” cookbook that runs on a node to check for compliance with The Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark for a specific platform. This release targets CentOS 7, CIS Benchmark version 1.0.0.

This is a repost of a blog published today by our friends at Microsoft, including Jeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect, Andrew Mason, Principal PM Manager, and Alan Back, Principal SWE Manager, who we have been working with extensively to ensure a best-in-class Windows experience with Chef. You can read the original post here.

This post originally appeared on Medium. ChefConf 2015 is a wrap, and most of the community has returned home. For those of you not familiar with the conference, it’s the gathering of hundreds of Chef community members.

This is a guest post by Marco Meinardi from our friends at Flexiant. Let’s say you need to deliver and operate an application in the cloud, at scale and velocity. Chef is of course essential for providing the automation that enables you to do this.

ChefConf 2015 has officially wrapped up.  This year’s conference was chock full of exciting announcements, astute content, good times, and that special brand of unique Chef community camaraderie.  I have to admit, I’m having ChefConf withdrawals. My first day working at Chef was the day our very first ChefConf got underway.

This is a guest post from Lori Mac Vittie, Sr Product Manager, Emerging Technologies at F5. Operationalizing the network continues to be a driving force behind DevOps and SDN.

This is a guest blog from Rodrigo Flores, managing director, Accenture Cloud Platform. Accenture joined Chef today in our new Partner Certification Program. As a community, cloud developers are not prone to follow specific directions to deliver an assignment.

This is a guest post from Robert Haynes, Marketing Solutions Architect at F5. It originally appeared on F5’s DevCentral site on March 30, 2015. Go here to read more about F5 and Chef’s work together. Chef turns infrastructure into code. It also gives the casual blog writer a terrible temptation to descend into pun-filled drivel.