Tickets are on sale now for ChefConf 2018 in Chicago May 22-25. ChefConf is the must-attend DevOps conference that brings together the best voices in the industry for a week of insightful, disruptive, and thought-provoking conversations driving digital change in IT.

Chef has always been built atop a very strong open-source community. However, we’ve heard from many of you that it’s hard to find news about new features being developed in our open-source projects.

For vendors, configuration management has become as important as the software itself. As a vendor you should take responsibility and provide proper cookbooks for your software that fulfill the requirements for as many users as possible.

Earlier this month, Google Project Zero announced several security vulnerabilities in many modern processors, commonly referred to by the names Spectre and Meltdown. These vulnerabilities arise from the exploitation of performance optimizations in modern CPUs, features known as branch prediction and speculative execution.

One of the most exciting things about Habitat is how it can empower Node developers to be able to build and manage their own deployments.

Installing and configuring multi-node systems are common enterprise tasks that can require a tremendous amount of time and resources. As technology continues to evolve, so will the need to effectively deploy and manage these systems. Chef and CloudBolt work together to simplify the installation and increase the scalability of these complex systems.

In today’s always-connected environment, every company needs to have a strong online presence in order to stay competitive. This shift has been keenly felt at NCR, where over a century of innovation has been built on the hardware they provide to their customers.

We are proud to announce some major improvements recently implemented in InSpec. Jerry Aldrich and I, two members of Chef’s InSpec Engineering team, have added two features which considerably improve performance when used with the Windows platform. Backend Caching Improvements First, we have added backend caching for commands.

Hello and Happy New Year Chef’s! It is 2018 and what better way to start the new year off than with an exciting cookbook release. I’m happy to announce that we have just released version 5.4.0 of the sql_server cookbook. Now, I know you’re thinking that this is not a major release.