Chef Workstation
All-in-One Toolkit for Infrastructure and Compliance Automation on Any Platform
Deploy a secure, compliant and scalable infrastructure across cloud, VMs or physical environment with Chef
Using Progress Chef, You Can:
Improve the Quality of Code
Chef includes Cookstyle that detects errors in style, syntax and code and auto corrects them based on cookbook rules. It optimizes cookbooks for best performance, runs compatibility scans and prompts upgrades.
Speed Up Your Testing Workflow
Streamline testing with Test Kitchen and InSpec. Provision VMs, validate code and deliver apps after rigorous checks. Only changes that pass InSpec tests are pushed to source.
Manage Infrastructure With One Document
Policyfiles simplifies managing roles, environments, and cookbooks by defining recipes and configurations for your system. Generate Policyfile.rb instantly and leverage 480+ compliance or 150+ infrastructure resources or create your own.
Key Benefits
Automated Infrastructure Configuration Management
Leverage a fast and reliable approach to manage configurations in large heterogenous IT resource fleets. Directly configure servers through SSH or WinRM and perform ad-hoc procedures on a number of hosts to swiftly configure server clusters.
Automated Compliance Audits and Remediation
Perform continuous audits to maintain a secure fleet. Use readymade CIS -benchmarked profiles for audit and remediation, or use custom profiles to maintain compliance.
Test Driven Development
Use Cookstyle and Test Kitchen to automate testing of your policies. Test configuration changes and application artifacts with InSpec. Maintain an auditable history of every change being applied to your environments with a visual dashboard that's bundled within.
Open Source Library: Chef Supermarket
Access a library of configuration policies maintained by our partners and the Chef community at the Supermarket. Alternatively, you can use built-in declarative resources to build bespoke automation specifically for your company.
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The Complete Automation Package
Chef for workstations includes every tool you need for infrastructure, compliance and application delivery automation within your organization. Everything you need to get started — ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software — all in one easy-to-install package. The Workstation toolkit includes: Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, Chef and Knife CLI and Testing tools such as Test Kitchen and Cookstyle.
Chef Infra
Powerful Policy-Based Configuration Management System Software
Chef InSpec
Industry Recognized Policy-based Compliance Automation Software Tools
Chef Habitat
Reliable Application Management And Delivery To Any Environment
