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Infrastructure Management

Automate, Scale and Integrate DevSecOps Into Infrastructure Management

Apply configurations consistently across environments and manage your infrastructure with ease using the Chef Automation Platform.

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Using Chef, You Can:

Change Safely

Automate systems' adherence to declared desired state and minimize security delays and fire drills.

Scale Easily

The largest companies in the world, like Meta, GM and SAP count on Chef to automate infrastructure management at a massive scale.

Run Anywhere

Infrastructure automation solutions for multi-OS, multi-cloud, on-premises, agentless, hybrid and complex legacy architectures.

Leverage Insights

Real-time data that is easy to filter and provides reachable and actionable data for every node under management.

Core Features

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Available Languages

Automation is only as complex as the problems it needs to solve; use a human readable language and a Ruby model when faced with complex scenarios.

Access Control

Customize and provide resource-specific authorizations to users and teams. Notifications can be displayed on a per-node or per-failure basis.

Testing Environment

The Chef platform includes Workstation - a development toolkit designed to streamline creation, testing and deploying configurations and policies efficiently.

AIOps Data Mapping

With a multitude of supporting integrations to leverage, data can be sent to intelligence and monitoring systems via a feature called 'Data Path' (including an advanced 2-way integration with ServiceNow CMDB and webhook notifications).

Unlock Infrastructure Efficiency

Integrate with various software across the DevOps ecosystem, including source code and artefact repositories, CI/CD pipelines, provisioning software and secrets management tools.

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Automation Tools Use Cases

Consistent Configuration

Eliminate configuration drift and continuously enforce desired state.

Hybrid Cloud Control

Effectively work with different clouds minimizing complexity through multi-cloud support.

System Hardening

Reduce risks by ensuring OSs, firmware, and system libraries are kept up to date.

Continuous Delivery Pipeline Automation

Enable developer services and drive pull-based CI/CD system workflows.

High Security, Low Trust Environments

Control access and accelerate delivery in highly regulated environments.

Automated Remediation

Event-driven automation that can immediately correct configuration drift.

Principle of Infrastructure Automation with Chef

Bridge the gap between configuration and compliance with an as-code approach while having complete visibility over your IT fleet.

Infrastructure as Code

Use Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure management across Windows, Linux and MacOS and more.

Single Pane of Glass

Maintain consistency across clouds with a GUI-based control plane that works in real-time and on-demand.

Configuration Meets Compliance

Use a single agent for configuration and compliance.

People Proven Progress

Discover how the Chef platform helps drive success for teams and organizations.

  • Continuous Compliance and Streamlined Auditing

    Use the Chef platform not just for configuration management but for security and compliance checks too.

  • Policy as Code

    Convert policy documents into Chef policies easily with code and automate both misconfiguration detection and remediation.

  • Job Orchestration at Scale

    Automate complex, condition based actions like patching, update rollouts or maintenance across large fleets of servers.

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Chef Support at Your Fingertips

Chef Infrastructure Management combines the power of open source community based software development and enterprise class support.

Chef Enterprise Distributions

Dedicated services that include trusted, hardened, production-ready software distributions, support, expert help, training, reporting and much more.

Chef Community

Chef Supermarket is the site for thousands of configuration templates (Cookbooks), for Chef Infra, that are built and maintained by the Chef Community.

Chef Automation

Enterprise dashboard and analytics tool enabling cross-team collaboration with actionable insights for configuration and compliance and an auditable history of changes to environments.

Meta Used a Single Chef Server to Manage a 15K Node Cluster

Using Chef allowed Phil Dibowitz and his team at Meta to build a flexible system that allowed a small team to manage an incredibly large number of systems with a variety of unique configurations.

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