Chef Infrastructure Management is a comprehensive automation solution designed to help IT teams streamline their DevOps practices and manage complex infrastructure environments. By leveraging infrastructure as code (IAC) principles, Chef enables organizations to automate the process of managing configurations and system states across diverse platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac systems, as well as multi-cloud and hybrid architectures. The solution's policy-based approach, built on test-driven development and idempotency principles, ensures consistent and reliable system configurations. This approach allows for parallel testing of system configurations and application changes, facilitating easier enforcement and monitoring of system states across all infrastructure and teams.

Key Features

Human-Readable Automation Language Chef uses standard human-readable language for easy adoption and flexibility.

• Start quickly with YAML for simple tasks
• Use Ruby for modeling complex scenarios when needed

Robust Testing and Development Tools Comprehensive suite of tools for efficient development and testing.

• Includes testing frameworks, dependency resolution, and cookbook generation
• Supports both existing chef policies and custom policy creation

Enterprise Control and Coordination Facilitates collaboration and maintains consistent views across teams.

• Customizable resource-specific authorization for users or teams
• Integration with LDAP or Active Directory
• Project-based data restrictions and configurable notifications

Benefits

Change Safely Automate system adherence to desired states and reduce security risks.

• Minimize security delays and avoid fire drills
• Ensure consistent configurations across environments

Run Everywhere Versatile infrastructure automation for diverse IT landscapes.

• Support for multi-OS, multi-cloud, on-premises, and hybrid architectures
• Seamless automation across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems

Scale Easily Proven capability to handle massive-scale automation needs.

• Trusted by major companies like Meta/Facebook, GM, and SAP
• Adaptable to growing infrastructure demands