Over the last few weeks, we have announced some exciting new improvements to the way Chef Software operates in the open source world. We announced the improved Contributor License Agreement process, the soft opening of Supermarket, and updates to the way we triage Chef products.

Another new video in our continuing series of #ChefTalks, with Jez and Rachel discussing the myths of failure within organizations, the challenges to real empowerment, and the importance of safety. “People have to understand that failure and success is not a performance issue of an individual, it’s characteristic of the system.

Hello, Today we are releasing new versions of Enterprise Chef Server and Open Source Chef Server to address a PostgreSQL configuration vulnerability error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases.

Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.3 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.

Enterprise Chef Server 1.4.3 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.

Enterprise Chef Server 11.1.8 is a security release to address a PostgreSQL configuration error. The defect allows any local user on the system hosting the Chef Server’s PostgreSQL components full access to databases. We advise all Chef Server users to update to this latest release which corrects the error.

Today we have another video in our ongoing #ChefTalks video series. Once again, Rachel Chalmers and Jez Humble are providing fresh perspectives and insights into culture, diversity, and change in IT. The below video provides a quick look at culture vs. tools, what DevOps is today, and where it needs to go.

Chef Solo was the original Chef. Remember the bad old days before the Chef server existed as a product, and the only way to use Chef was to scp (or worse, ftp) giant tarballs of recipes & cookbooks from system to system?

With the soft-opening of Supermarket, we updated the process for signing a Contributor License Agreement, CLA. Supermarket has already started tracking CLAs. Unfortunately, because of the way this data has been stored in the past, we were not able to migrate the data.