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Learn Chef Rally: Year in Review
By Brian Turner
It has been almost two years since I became involved with Learn Chef Rally and it has been a blast! When the new learning platform launched at ChefConf 2017 it was limited in scope, only providing Chef learning tutorials.
Read more25,000 Users and Introducing Learn Chef Rally Demos!
By Brian Turner
This week we passed a significant Learn Chef Rally milestone: more than 25,000 of you have created an account to track your progress! This reinforces that we have an amazing community of users interested in honing their chef skills.
Read moreNew Videos: Getting Started with Habitat and Application Automation
By Brian Turner
We have some exciting news! Chef is introducing a series of short videos for Habitat on YouTube: Getting Started with Habitat. This playlist focuses on Habitat – including getting started, core concepts, and practical tips.
Read moreHappy Birthday Learn Chef Rally!
By Brian Turner
We’re excited to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of Learn Chef Rally! It’s been a great year for learning Chef, and as part of the celebration, we’ll be releasing a limited edition badge at ChefConf next week. I’m not going to show it to you today, but imagine a magical feline celebrating, and you are getting close.
Read moreLearning Chef: online and in-person
By Brian Turner
As you may have seen in this blog post, we now have over 10,000 members of the Chef community signed up for an account on Learn Chef Rally. The Chef training team is busy developing the learning content you need to succeed with Chef and grow your career in DevOps.
Read moreChef on AWS and Azure – New Tracks on Learn Chef Rally
It takes a community of passionate and involved partners to fuel the love of Chef, DevOps, and automation. Our partnerships with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services have made for an exciting experience using Chef Automate. You can learn more about our partner integrations on the Chef web pages for Azure and AWS.
Read moreGuest Blog: Unnatural DevOps Delivers Super-Natural Results
Automation is a big component in providing IT as a service. Trace3, a Chef partner since 2013, empowers organizations to keep pace with the rapidly changing IT landscape by leveraging innovative technologies, like Chef, allowing companies to leverage Continuous Automation and ensure a competitive edge in today’s marketplace. DevOps is not necessarily a “natural” process.
Read moreLearning Habitat with the Chef Training Team
Habitat is an open-source project by Chef that moves an application’s configuration, management, and behavior to the application itself, not the infrastructure that the application runs on. Habitat provides simple and consistent ways to deploy and manage cloud-native applications. In addition to the awesome tutorials on www.habitat.
Read moreI did the tutorial, now what? Getting started with Chef on real infrastructure
By Morgan Drake
After taking Chef Essentials or spending time on learn.chef.io, you might still feel there’s a gulf between what you’ve learned and the details of automating your real-world infrastructure. In this article, I’ll outline some common starting points for writing your own Chef recipes, and point you to frequently-used tools and reference resources.
Read moreTest Driven Cookbook Development in 2017
We are constantly asked to deliver our infrastructure faster at what seems like a compromise of its quality. Waiting until it’s time to deploy into production is not the moment to see if the cookbooks we have written will work.
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