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Chef Infrastructure Management
Operating Infrastructure at Scale - Beyond Jobs and Workflows
Organizations are shifting from isolated servers to shared, dynamic infrastructure platforms, increasing the need for continuous visibility and control at scale. While automation jobs and workflows help execute changes, they fall short in maintaining a trusted, real-time understanding of system state. Over time, drift, loss of context and fragmented processes increase operational risk and cost. The key challenge is not executing change, but ensuring systems remain aligned with intended state under constant change. A modern operating model must link execution with ongoing validation, enabling teams to detect drift early, maintain compliance and act with confidence. Chef 360 addresses this gap by combining automation with operational context, giving teams a continuous, reliable view of infrastructure posture across environments. This shifts operations from tracking past actions to maintaining real-time operational confidence.
Read moreGovern at Scale and Make Automation Auditable and Predictable
By Mark Cavins
At enterprise scale, automation without governance creates risk. Progress Chef 360 embeds governance directly into execution, ensuring every automated action is authorised, traceable and auditable - regardless of the tool used. By combining policy‑as‑code, continuous compliance, closed‑loop remediation and human‑governed AIOps, Chef transforms fragmented automation into a predictable, scalable operating model. Unlike Ansible, Puppet and SaltStack, Chef delivers built‑in governance that grows with your enterprise, enabling teams to move fast without sacrificing control, compliance or trust.
Read moreWhat’s the Difference Between Progress Chef Infra Client 18 and 19?
Chef Infra Client 19 is a major leap forward in ease of distribution and capability. Learn more about the differences between version 18 and verison 19 here and get started on your Chef Infra Client 19 journey today!
Read moreThe Progress Chef 360 Platform: Built for Enterprise-Ready Operations
By Jayamathan S
Enterprise infrastructure teams need platforms they can run, protect, and recover with confidence while meeting existing security and operational constraints. The Progress Chef 360 platform delivers enterprise‑ready automation by unifying infrastructure automation, continuous compliance, node management, and job orchestration into a single system. With built‑in disaster recovery and fully supported Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) deployments, Chef 360 enables organizations to operate securely, consistently, and at scale across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid environments.
Read moreWhy Configuration Management is Important to Being Compliant and Secure
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By Shua Matin
Better configuration management leads to better compliance and security. This blog explains how managing the configurations across your entire IT estate and using a tool like Chef Compliance helps mitigate risks and achieve continuous compliance throughout the CI/CD process.
Read moreWhat the Global Technical Support Teams Can Do for You
Progress Chef’s global technical support teams are always available to assist IT and DevSecOps professionals. Learn more about how our services operate and what we offer to customers worldwide.
Read moreAutomated CI/CD Pipelines with Chef and GitLab
During ChefConf 2021 Online Stephanie Laingen, DevOps Consultant/Software Engineer from TapHere!Technology, presented an informative session on using Chef and GitLab together as part of an Agile Developmet Workflow. This blog post is an overview of the session.
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