Chef Enterprise Automation Stack

Chef Enterprise Automation Stack, developed by Progress Software Corporation, is a solution designed to automate infrastructure and compliance management for organizations. It caters to small, medium, and large enterprises across various industries and is utilized by professionals such as IT operations teams, DevOps engineers, security professionals, compliance officers, and software developers.

Key Features

Robust Automation Capabilities: According to the vendor, Chef Enterprise Automation Stack provides robust automation capabilities for configuration management, application delivery, security, and compliance. It enables organizations to automate the provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure and applications, aiming to ensure consistent and reliable automation across their entire IT fleet.

Infrastructure Management Automation: The vendor claims that Chef Enterprise Automation Stack allows organizations to automate infrastructure management to ensure consistent configurations in every environment. It offers the ability to define infrastructure as code, making it easier to manage and provision resources, including virtual machines, containers, networks, and storage. This automation is intended to reduce manual errors, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance.

Compliance and Security Management: According to the vendor, Chef Enterprise Automation Stack helps organizations maintain compliance and prevent security incidents. It provides tools for continuous compliance monitoring and enforcement across the entire estate. The solution includes pre-built compliance profiles, such as CIS and DISA STIGs, to meet industry standards. Integration with secrets management platforms is said to ensure secure storage and retrieval of authentication credentials and sensitive information.

Application Delivery Automation: The vendor states that organizations can automate application delivery processes using Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. It supports deploying applications in any environment, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The solution allows the definition of application configurations as code, simplifying the management and consistent deployment of applications. Tasks such as packaging applications, managing dependencies, and deploying applications to different environments can be automated.