Kubernetes DevOps Automation Solutions

The Progress® Chef® platform helps accelerate the adoption of high value technologies like Kubernetes by building technology-agnostic automation that makes it easy to deliver compliant applications to any platform. Using the Chef solution, DevOps teams build compact, immutable and hardened images that can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud on Kubernetes or on whatever platform comes next. This helps organizations ensure any initial savings gained from the implementation of a new technology aren’t outweighed by higher operational overhead and compliance remediation costs in the future.

The Power of Kubernetes Depends on the Quality of Containers it Manages

Container solutions have provided organizations with the means to deliver applications in a way that's lightweight, immutable, and portable. This, in turn, enables the creation of highly efficient, distributed architectures for their environments. While Kubernetes has improved how organizations schedule and orchestrate containers, it doesn't address challenges related to creation and maintenance including:

• Opaque Containers: Inspecting and determining what exactly is running in a live container can be difficult.
• Security and Compliance: Detecting which containers and/or pods are affected by new regulatory requirements or threats and then planning remediation is not straightforward.
• Non-Cloud Native Apps: Migrating older apps using a “lift and shift” approach moves the app and everything else running along with the app, resulting in bloated, hard-to-manage containers.

Less is More: Minimized Containers Maximize ROI

Kubernetes has no opinion on what goes into a container; it just runs them. The better containers you give Kubernetes to manage the better job it can do. The most ideal way to build good containers while using the Chef solution is to minimize what goes into them. The less you put into a container, the less you have to manage and the less you have to worry about when that container becomes part of a Kubernetes cluster.

The Chef solution delivers simplicity to Kubernetes by abstracting an application from the underlying operating system and bundling it with the dependencies it needs to run. By abstracting the application from both the internal (library) and external (service) dependencies, an immutable build artifact is created that is guaranteed to run the same in any environment. This not only creates a minimal build artifact, but one that can be easily inspected and audited, whether you're building a new cloud-native application or migrating existing applications into modern environments.

By building containers with Chef Habitat, organizations can dramatically increase the quality of the containers they build and reduce the time and effort it takes to deploy and maintain applications deployed in Kubernetes.

Benefits of Using Chef with Kubernetes