Chef Platform Overview

The Chef platform consists of open source and commercial products that automate infrastructure, applications, compliance, and the DevOps workflow.

Components of the Chef platform can work independently or together. They can automate the cloud and data centers, enforce compliance and security, continuously deliver applications and infrastructure, and enable cross-team collaboration at scale.

Commercial Products

Chef DeliveryAutomated Workflow

Chef Delivery lets you manage changes to both infrastructure and application code, giving your operations and development teams a common way to develop, test, and deploy cookbooks, applications, and more. Chef Delivery is based on DevOps best practices for continuous deployment.

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Chef AnalyticsInfrastructure Visibility

Chef Analytics gives you real-time visibility into what's happening in your Chef-managed infrastructure. You can determine, for example, what changed, the type of change, who made the change, and when the change was made. You can create queries, generate reports, and integrate with messaging systems so that the relevant people are notified when an event occurs.

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Chef ComplianceScan and Remediate

Chef Compliance is built on top of InSpec and adds additional features. With Chef Compliance, you can generate customizable reports that identify compliance issues, security risks, and outdated software. You can get started quickly by using Chef Compliance profiles that are predefined sets of rules for a variety of security frameworks such as Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.

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Open Source Products

ChefCloud and Infrastructure Automation

The Chef client and server are the foundation for creating and managing exible, dynamic infrastructure across multiple datacenters, public and private clouds and in heterogeneous environments. The Chef development kit (Chef DK) gives you the tools you need for test-driven development and more.

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InSpecInfrastructure Testing and Compliance

InSpec is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure. It includes a human and machine-readable language for specifying compliance, security and policy rules.

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HabitatApplication Automation

Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy and manage behave consistently in any runtime-- bare metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS.

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Use Cases

Cloud and Data Centers

Automate the management of your infrastructure the DevOps way and simplify your migration to the cloud. It's all about infrastructure as code.

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Compliance & Security

Use automation for compliance and security. Assess and remediate continuously. It's all about compliance as code.

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Continuous Delivery for Apps & Infrastructure

Develop apps and deliver infrastructure the DevOps way. Automate your workflow and eliminate silos with Chef's full-stack pipeline.

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Collaboration at Scale

Take control of systems with complex dependencies all the way from development to production. Use automation for effective cross-team testing and release coordination.

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