We’re so excited to announce the Awesome Community Chefs for 2018. It’s inspiring for us to hear from our community through the nominations and then be able to recognize the huge contributions from our Awesome Community Chefs. These folks are out there Doing Change everyday to help others reach their goals in so many ways.

This week brings us into another delightful ChefConf! We’ve made a lot of great announcements about enhancements and features that have been added across our suite of automation tools, and in Chef Automate itself with Automate 2.0. We also announced that Chef Software is now even more tightly integrated with the Microsoft Azure platform.

Building on the work we announced last fall to help you provision GCP resources with Chef cookbooks, and in honor of ChefConf 2018, Chef and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have been working together in several exciting ways: Extending coverage of InSpec for popular GCP resources Adding Habitat support for Google Container Registry Offering additional Chef […]

We’re excited to announce the release of Chef Workstation, providing everything you need to get started with Chef with a simple one-click installation. Ad-Hoc Configuration Management with chef-run Chef Workstation comes with the new chef-run utility, which can be used to execute chef code on any remote system accessible via SSH or WinRM.

We are delighted to announce the general availability of Chef Automate 2, a major upgrade to our continuous automation platform. Chef Automate 2 is the culmination of a nine month re-architecture initiative to improve performance, scale and responsiveness.

Today we’re delighted to announce the release of Chef DK 3.0. With this release, you can detect and correct issues across more platforms faster than ever before with the addition of Chef 14 and InSpec 2.

Introduction One of the frequent requests that we have had since we introduced public Habitat Builder last year has been to allow Habitat users to have the same workflow behind the firewall in their private cloud- and on-premises infrastructure.

Bringing your companies platform to the cloud with the goal of developing software with speed requires a solid strategy and key partner integration. Relativity, an e-discovery platform for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects, realized together with Microsoft Azure, Chef Automate, and 10th Magnitude, this could be a reality.

We’re excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Learn Chef Rally! It’s been a great year for learning Chef, and as part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing a limited edition badge at ChefConf next week. I’m not going to show it to you today, but imagine a magical feline celebrating, and you are getting close.