UsingChef Issue 32 [feedly]

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UsingChef Issue 32
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Using Chef Newsletter View this email in your browser Using Chef Issue 32 Tons of great news and information this week from AWS announcments, Chef Provisioning, and some Chef RFC updates. Articles Chef Client 12.0.0 Release Candidate partial_search is now part of chef, updated ruby and more. Checkout the changelog for details. via Chef @getchef Accepted Chef RFCs for Nov 13 Noah Kantrowitz has been posting a recap and status of RFCs accepted and being discussed in the past week. Notabily the RFC to replace Solo with Local Mode was merged. via Noah Kantrowitz @kantrn Chef Governance & Maintenance Good overview of the governance and advisory board that was recently setup to ensure users (you!) have a voice in the long term planning of Chef the project. via Noah Kantrowitz @kantrn Chef Conf 2015 3/31-4/2 in Santa Clara. Call for papers has been opened as well. Buy your tickets and submit those papers. via Chef @chef In search of a light weight windows vagrant box Matt Wrock has been doing some awesome work with Windows and automation. Here he looks into making a useable, light weight Windows vagrant box. via Matt Wrock @mwrockx Chef Provisioning: Infrastructure As Code Chef Provisioning (was Chef Metal) is now a Release Candidate and included in ChefDK. Chef Provisioning provides machine and other resources to the Chef DSL that allows you to provision machines and other infrastructure with chef. via Chef @getchef The Official Unofficial Getting Started with ChefDK Guide Good overview of getting started with ChefDK and Chef in general from creating a cookbook to testing it with chefspec and serverspec. Also some great original robot artwork! via James Francis @ AWS re:Invent Press Room Incase you missed it, links to the new products announced. via Jay Kreps @jaykreps Security Update: Hosted Chef New organizations in Hosted Chef will no longer be able to create, update or delete dta bag contents from recipes. This is to protect against bad actors gaining access to your nodes. Existing organizations are not affected. via Chef @getchef Released this Week chef-runner v0.8.0 java v1.29.0 chef v10.34.6 berkshelf v3.2.1 Enterprise Chef Server v11.2.5 cygwin v0.4.1 Tweet of the week @lnxchk: They're heeeere. Yak Shaving Expert stickers at the @chef booth! #velocityconf #getchef pic.twitter.com/jFFb8gaY3I   Copyright © 2014 UsingChef, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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