Today we’re excited to show off our Habitat Open Service Broker reference implementation. The Open Service Broker (OSB) project is an industry-wide collaboration to enable service consumption through a simple, secure, API-driven model.

April was a big month for us at Chef. During this month we released Chef 14, a friendlier easier Chef. With more than 30 new resources added, this is, by far the fastest and easiest to use, Chef version yet.

Here’s what happened in the Chef, Habitat and InSpec open-source communities over the last month. Chef The biggest news from the Chef project is that we released Chef 14, a faster and easier to use Chef.

It’s just under a month until ChefConf 2018 kicks off in Chicago! We’ve been busy putting the finishing touches on the program for the event, May 22-25 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

Organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud at breakneck speed, and it’s not difficult to see why. Cloud providers offer the ability to provision new environments and infrastructure on demand, allowing fleets to be scaled with unparalleled speed and efficiency. Costly and complex to maintain network and storage hardware can be replaced with vendor-managed services.

At the beginning of April we announced the release of Chef Client 14. Shortly after, I presented a live webinar: What’s new in Chef 14 and ChefDK 3. In case you missed it, watch a recording of the presentation below to see the newest features included in this release. You can download Chef 14 here.

Chef offers many learning opportunities in Europe via training partners. One of these is Commandemy, an Austrian IT training provider specializing in topics like DevOps, Automation, and Configuration Management. They have a long relationship with Chef and have delivered our courses all over Europe, especially in the DACH region.

Chef and Microsoft have released an e-guide on infrastructure as code (IaC) on Azure. IaC gives you the basic structure that allows systems to replicate automatically across any number of virtual machines, cloud instances, or containers – in a matter of minutes.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a huge ecosystem of products that can make your infrastructure one of the best supported on the planet. Back in October, we announced a new integration between GCP and Chef to support the ever increasing number of Chef customers using GCP.