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Last week, Microsoft & Chef announced a strategic partnership to automate their cloud workloads and move them into the Azure cloud:

• https://www.chef.io/solutions/azure/
• http://www.geekwire.com/2015/chef-and-microsoft-team-up-to-enhance-azures-automation/

Coming this Month:
In case you’re interested in managing Linux & Windows instances within Azure, both Chef & Microsoft are running doing a seminar March 19^th on automation using Chef & Azure:

• OpenSource Automation on Azure using Chef
  More and More Windows Administrators are being called upon to extend themselves into the world of managing Linux based systems. This talk will focus on how Chef, a popular open source framework, can make managing Linux workloads on Azure easy. We’ll also touch on how to manage Windows workloads with Chef. We will cover the basic paradigms of Chef, launching Linux instances and deploying applications to Linux instances.
  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11349/145733

Microsoft & Azure @ Chef Conf 2015 (March 31-April 2 – https://www.chef.io/chefconf/):
Microsoft is sending Distinguished Engineer, Jeffrey Snover, to Chef Conf 2015 – one of our highest ranking engineers. Also in attendance will be Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Jessica DeVita, and Technical Evangelist Manager, Damien Caro. The following sessions will be delivered on Azure & Chef:

• Tuesday, March 31 – 9:00am – 5:00pm: Orchestrating Linux workloads & Docker Containers on Azure with Chef
  https://chefconf2015a.sched.org/event/6fca38b49e47bf00be1bf5adcfe0f745?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.VPTAcf8tHY4
• Wednesday, April 1 – 2:25pm – 3:05pm: The Chef Prince of Azure: How 10th Magnitude used Chef to flip-turn ZS Associates into Microsoft Azure Royalty
  https://chefconf2015a.sched.org/event/6f7f443ea47eca39f6817e3e29e99c68?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.VPTAc_8tHY4
• Thursday, April 2 – 1:15pm – 1:55pm: PowerShell from the Ground Up
  https://chefconf2015a.sched.org/event/04752697d12354dc85cb335313abf922#.VPTJh_8tHY4
• Thursday, April 2 – 1:15pm – 1:55pm: Automate what you can, document what you can’t and have the wisdom to know the difference
  https://chefconf2015a.sched.org/event/68c107b6496edf97b467193c91be9c80#.VPTJnv8tHY4
• Thursday, April 2 – 2:10pm – 2:50pm: Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Veteran Chefs
  https://chefconf2015a.sched.org/event/c6c4ea3bf794e736c151108afb6868ff#.VPTJvf8tHY4

Previous Chef & Azure Video Broadcasts:

• ChefConf 2014 Keynote: Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich – "Microsoft Azure Group"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtMV07GeaEs
• Edge Show: Chef deployments to Windows Azure
  http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Edge/Edge-Show-93-Chef-deployments-to-Windows-Azure
• Azure+Chef=AWESOME : The Series
• Episode #1: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11349/115265
• Episode #2: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11349/121585
• Episode #3: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11349/134563