Author:
Jamie Bright
Former Chef employee
ChefConf Session Spotlight – Chef and DevOps for Pointy Hairs
By Jamie Bright
Next up in our series of ChefConf Session Spotlights, I’m delighted to introduce Victoria Blessing who will presenting a session in our transformation track. Victoria is an Operations Engineer for the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University, managing the college’s Unix web infrastructure since 2014. All Linux nodes are Chef-managed.
Read moreChefConf Session Spotlight – Chef & Compliance: DevOps gateway for the Health Care Enterprise
By Jamie Bright
Continuing our series of ChefConf Session Spotlights, I’m pleased to introduce Odie Routh. Odie is a member of a Lean Engineering team at Optum, a health care technology company. He works remotely from Vermont, and focuses on promoting DevOps practices by collaborating across as many departments and disciplines throughout the enterprise as he can.
Read moreWatch: Using Chef Compliance to Secure your Servers
By Jamie Bright
Can you prove your servers are hardened correctly? Can you patch zero-day vulnerabilities in minutes? How quickly can you generate the reports your auditors demand? With Chef you’ll get it done quickly using automation. Chef Compliance lets you express your compliance rules as code. You can easily run those rules as tests whenever you want.
Read moreNordstrom turning over Chef-Vault ownership to Chef
By Jamie Bright
This is a guest post from our friend Doug Ireton at Nordstrom, detailing key information about the transfer of ownership for Chef-Vault from the Nordstrom team to Chef. # What is chef-vault? Chef-Vault is a tool to help engineers securely manage passwords, SSL certs, and other secrets in Chef Recipes.
Read moreChef Delivery: A Guided Tour
By Jamie Bright
Chef Delivery accelerates the adoption of continuous delivery and encourages DevOps collaboration. It provides a proven, reproducible workflow for managing changes as they progress from a developer’s workstation, through a series of automated tests, and out into production.
Read moreCustom Resources in Chef Client 12.5
By Jamie Bright
On October 28, 2015, Chef Principal Engineer John Keiser presented a webinar on Custom Resources in Chef Client 12.5. John introduced the concept of the custom resource, explained why you would want to write one, introduced the language concepts, and walked through a tutorial of how to make your own. A recording of the webinar is available below.
Read moreChef Policies: Why, What, and How
By Jamie Bright
On Wednesday, September 30th, software engineer Joshua Timberman presented a webinar on Chef Policies, a new feature of Chef. Policies combine the best parts of roles, environments, and client-side dependency resolvers such as Berkshelf into a single, easy-to-use workflow.
Read moreGet the Most From Chef: Analytics, Provisioning, and More
By Jamie Bright
Earlier today, Chef Automation Engineer, Galen Emery, presented a webinar on how to “Get the Most From Chef” with some of our newest features. Chef Analytics: Do you have compliance or audit requirements? Get real-time visibility into what’s happening on the Chef server. Chef Provisioning: Spend less time on the tedious stuff.
Read moreChefConf 2015: DevOps, Velocity, and Community
By Jamie Bright
ChefConf 2015 welcomed 1500 attendees and 42 sponsors over our four day event.
Read moreJoint Webinar: DevSecOps – Taking a DevOps Approach to Security
By Jamie Bright
Can Dev-”Sec”-Ops really exist? On Thursday, March 19 we’re partnering with Alert Logic to present a must-attend webinar for anyone wanting to debate how to adopt a continuous delivery model to security.
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