Here I am in Chicagoland for my third ChefConf. I caught the keynotes today with Nathan Harvey, Barry Crist, Adam Jacob, Corie Scobie and more. The big news at this year’s event is that Chef is focused on more than just infrastructure and compliance—Chef is bringing automation to apps and the entire software delivery life […]
DevOps Chat: Chef Update with Ken Cheney, Chef CMO
There are always new developments going on at Chef. We caught up with Chef CMO Ken Cheney to give us an update. Last time we spoke with Ken was right after ChefConf. Since then, Chef continues to move forward on several fronts including Habitat, Automate and INSPEC. We speak to Ken every other month or […]
All Day DevOps: System Hardening with Ansible
The DevOps pipeline is constantly changing. Therefore, relevant security controls must be applied contextually. We want to be secure, but I think all of us would rather spend our time developing and deploying software. Keeping up with server updates and all of the other security tasks is like cleaning your home: you know it has […]
DevOps Chat: Ken Cheney, Chef on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automation
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud catches up with Chef’s busy CMO Ken Cheney. Ken give us the inside look at AWS’s OpsWorks for Chef Automate. While this is an AWS offering it is based on Chef and is a pretty big bet by AWS on Chef. In addition Ken brings us up to speed (pun intended) on other things […]
Austin & Chef Give ChefConf 2016 That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling
I have written before about the DevOps community in Austin. It is one of the most welcoming and warm groups of people I have ever interacted with. Combine that with the HugOps operation of the friendly folks of Chef and you wind up with a great experience. That pretty much sums up ChefConf 2016 for […]
Simplify and expedite server management
Deploying, managing, and maintaining servers can be tedious. Deploying, managing, and maintaining thousands, or tens of thousands of server instances is overwhelming—bordering on impossible—without the right tools. Thankfully, the right tools exist. The Pain of Doing Things the Hard Way I know I am dating myself, but when I was an IT admin for a […]
From Simple Automation to DevOps Like a Boss
Automation as We Know It Today If you haven’t been hiding in a cave in the last year or two, you’ve probably heard the terms DevOps and infrastructure automation more than once… But even today, infrastructure automation is mostly focused on setup and deployment of complex systems. For example, if you’d like to deploy your […]