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 Habitat Project Continues to Mature
When Chef Habitat was released a little more than two years ago (good staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud story on Habitat here and a good DevOps Chat on it here), many people in the DevOps community wondered where Chef was going with Habitat. It was a really ambitious vision, but could it meet its lofty goals? Habitat is now […]
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 […]
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 […]
DevOps Chat: Habitat by Chef with Julian Dunn
I had a chance to speak with Julian Dunn, product manager for Chef ahead of the upcoming ChefConf conference in Austin Texas next week. Julian and I spoke about Habitat, Chef’s new open source application automation project. Many in the industry are hailing Habitat as something really special. Our own Tony Bradley says it could […]
Chef Has Potential Game-Changer with Habitat
Chef is an established leader in the DevOps world. Automation is a keystone of DevOps tools and processes, and Chef’s platform simplifies and streamlines automation. Chef is branching out, though, with the recent unveiling of Habitat—an open-source project to automate the applications themselves. As companies continue to embrace DevOps and developers continue to create custom […]
Chef Launches Habitat, New Open Source Project to Automate Applications
After Nine Months in Stealth Development, First of Its Kind Open Source Project Packages Automation with Application for Deployment Anywhere, from Bare Metal to Containers SEATTLE – June 14, 2016 – Chef<https://www.chef.io>, the leader in automation for DevOps<https://www.chef.io/solutions/devops>, today announced Habitat<https://habitat.sh>, an open source project that introduces a new approach for application automation. Applications packaged […]