Turn it to 11: Upgrading From Chef 10
So you’re on Chef 10, and you can taste the shiny radiating from Chef 11. It’s faster, scales better, and is easier to install and manage. There’s no question: you want to go to there. But how?...
View Articlemixlib-config 2.0
mixlib-config is getting an update! We use mixlib-config in Chef to drive the knife.rb and client.rb files (as well as Omnibus config). For a quick overview, to use mixlib-config in your project, you...
View Articlechef-client -z: From Zero To Chef In 8.5 Seconds
In Chef 11.8, we’re excited to introduce local mode with `chef-client -z`. Designed to get people up and running with Chef as quickly as possible, local mode harnesses the power of...
View Articlemixlib-config 2.1
mixlib-config has a new minor release with save() and restore(). save will take any values the user has explicitly set and place them in a hash. This does not include defaults. A usage example with...
View ArticleChef Metal Alpha
An early Christmas present for you! We’ve been rethinking how Chef can be used to bootstrap machines and create test environments, and an early prototype–the chef-metal gem–has come out of that...
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Chef Metal 0.2 Release
Introducing Chef Metal 0.2! Chef Metal is a framework that lets you manage your clusters with Chef the same way you manage machines: with recipes. Combined with the power of Chef, Metal’s machine...
View ArticleChef Provisioning: Infrastructure As Code
Chef Provisioning is now a Release Candidate, included in the ChefDK version 0.3.4! This powerful new Chef featureset lets you idempotently create and converge machines, images, load balancers and...
View ArticleUpdate: Chef 12.4.3 Released
Update: We’ve just released 12.4.3, which fixes a couple of 12.4.2 regressions on Windows: The Windows chef installer was much bigger than 12.4.1 (it’s back down under 80MB). chef-client raised an...
View ArticleChefDK 0.8.0 Release
Ohai Chefs! Time for a shiny new ChefDK release :) ChefDK 0.8.0 is now available at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ on OS/X (including OS X 10.11, “El Capitan”), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows,...
View ArticleUpdate: Chef 12.4.3 Released
Update: We’ve just released 12.4.3, which fixes a couple of 12.4.2 regressions on Windows: The Windows chef installer was much bigger than 12.4.1 (it’s back down under 80MB). chef-client raised an...
View ArticleChefDK 0.8.0 Release
Ohai Chefs! Time for a shiny new ChefDK release :) ChefDK 0.8.0 is now available at https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ on OS/X (including OS X 10.11, “El Capitan”), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows,...
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