This post originally appeared on SysAdvent Growing up, every Christmas time included the sweet smells of fresh baked cookies. The kitchen would get incredibly messy as we prepped a wide assortment from carefully frosted sugar cookies to peanut butter cookies. Holiday tins would be packed to the brim to share with neighbors and visiting friends.

This is an excerpt from a recent posting on the Cupfighter blog, authored by the team at Schuberg Philis. This entry digs into using Chef with Microsoft Powershell DSC and comes from Chef contributor and Schuberg Philis engineer Bob van den Heuvel.

Today we have released a new version of the Reporting Add-on 1.2.2 which includes database schema changes to deal with creating partitions for 2015 and additional indexes to improve performance. We recommend all users upgrade to this release to help with both scalability and performance.

Available for immediate download are Chef Server 12.0.1 and Enterprise Chef Server 11.2.6. This release addresses CVE-2014-8144, a CSRF vulnerability found in doorkeeper, a gem used by the oc-id service that ships with the Chef Server. This release updates oc-id to the latest version, 0.4.4, which contains the patched doorkeeper gem.

ChefConf 2015 is the largest, most vibrant gathering of web-scale IT and DevOps leaders, practitioners, and innovators. Featuring three days of inspired discussions, collaborative presentations, technical training, and hands-on labs focused on automating infrastructure and the continuous delivery of applications. Join us in Santa Clara, CA from March 31 to April 2, 2015 for ChefConf.

Change Agents from GE Capital, InterContinental Hotels Group, Intuit, Scholastic, and Standard Bank to Address 60,000-Strong Chef Community F5 Networks and Microsoft Among Leading Technology Providers Sponsoring ChefConf 2015 SEATTLE – December 17, 2014 – Chef, the leader in web-scale IT automation, today announced ChefConf 2015, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in […]

Ohai chefs, Today we have released a new version of Chef Client 12.0.3 which includes more bug fixes around Chef Client 11 to Chef Client 12 migration. We needed to skip version 12.0.2 since we have discovered an issue after building before releasing our final packages.

Or, Yo Dawg, I heard you like Chef. This post originally appeared on SysAdvent. This post is dedicated to Ezra Zygmuntowicz. Without Ezra, we wouldn’t have had Merb for the original Chef server, chef-solo, and maybe not even Chef itself. His contributions to the Ruby, Rails, and Chef communities are immense. Thanks, Ezra, RIP.

This post originally appeared on jtimberman’s Code Blog. Scenario: You’ve started up a brand new Chef Server using version 12, and you have installed Chef 12 on your local system.