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Today I’m thrilled to announce two new add-ons for Chef Server 12: Chef Server High Availability and Chef Server Replication. These two features are among the most-frequently requested product enhancements and allow customers to geographically distribute highly-available Chef server clusters…Read more ›

Ohai Chefs. Today’s release of Chef Client 11.16.0 marks the inclusion of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) support into Chef Client for Windows. DSC is a powerful configuration management platform built into PowerShell 4.0, and now you can use it with Chef!…Read more ›

Today we’re pleased to announce the public availability of the first Chef Server 12 Release Candidate. This release brings the differentiating features of Enterprise Chef, namely multi-tenancy and role-based access control, into Open Source Chef. What’s New Chef Server 12…Read more ›

Enterprise Chef 11.2.1 is a critical bug-fix release for customers who installed Enterprise Chef 11.2.0. It corrects a single defect experienced by customers who upgraded from earlier releases. Bug Fixes: Fixes an issue where private-chef was being changed to private_chef unexectedly in upstart/runit configuration…Read more ›

This was originally posted on coderanger.net. Chef RFCs are a way to propose and discuss changes to Chef and related projects. What is an RFC? Each RFC proposes a major change to Chef or another piece of software, or to…Read more ›

This was originally posted on stevenmurawski.com. SETTING THE TABLE First off, let me get on record – I LOVE DSC.  When I was at Stack Exchange, I rolled Desired State Configuration out during the Server 2012 R2 preview timeframe.  I coddled…Read more ›

We are pleased to announce the release of the Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 server and Chef Analytics 1.0.1. Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 What’s New oc-id Adds the Chef Identity Service. This enables Supermaket and Analytics authentication against the Enterprise Chef Server. For more information on…Read more ›

Enterprise Chef 11.2.0 includes oc-id, the OAuth2 service that powers id.opscode.com.   After upgrading to this release, Chef customers can run their own Supermarket service behind a firewall. oc-id setup: 1: Add the following setting to your /etc/opscode/private-chef.rb configuration file and…Read more ›

Ohai Chefs, As of today version 0.2.1 of Chef Development Kit is available on our download page. Starting with this version, Chef Development Kit is now supported on Mac OS X 10.8 in addition to 10.9. The other changes included…Read more ›

Today one of our most prolific community members announced his decision to leave Chef and go on a software engineering sabbatical, in part because of how he was treated by a few members in our community. As a company, Chef…Read more ›