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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 moreModernize Automation Without Rip and Replace: How Chef 360 Can Help
Modernizing IT doesn’t have to mean ripping and replacing existing systems. As complexity from cloud, AI and compliance grows, teams need a more practical approach that builds on what already works. Progress Chef 360 enables this shift by letting teams reuse existing automation, gain unified visibility, enforce compliance and scale efficiently. With AI-powered capabilities, it helps organisations evolve their infrastructure steadily - without disruption or unnecessary overhead.
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 moreEnhance Your Customer Experience with the New and Improved Progress Chef Download Portal
The Progress Chef team consistently tries to deliver improved customer experiences that are relevant and easy to use. As part of this endeavor, we’re delighted to introduce you to a new user journey on the Chef Download portal.
Read moreSign Up for Progress Chef Courier Beta and Learn the Benefits of Job Orchestration
We are excited to announce the beta launch of Progress Chef Courier! Sign up to see how you can streamline complex workflows with our enterprise job orchestration solution and enable control over every dimension of the change rollout process.
Read moreUpgrading Golang Version in the Early June ‘23 Automate Release
Read more about the new version of Chef Automate that will be released in the early June 2023, which includes an upgrade to Golang 1.19.
Read moreAnnouncement Chef Client 16 EOL Date Change
Chef Infra Client 16 was set to reach End of Life on April 30, 2022. Chef Infra Client 16 will now continue to receive support, security vulnerability patches, and fixes for critical bugs until November 30, 2022.
Read moreBuilding The Coded Enterprise
To compete in the modern economy, organizations across industries have had to develop competency in the digital domain. Customer-facing apps and digital experiences drive growth, while large scale software systems keep operations running efficiently.
Read moreInside the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service
We’re excited about this morning’s announcement at AWS re:Invent unveiling the new AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate service. This service helps anyone get started quickly with Chef Automate in a low-risk low-friction way with all the benefits you’d expect from any native AWS service.
Read moreErchef Comes to Hosted Chef
By Seth Falcon
I’m very happy and quite proud to announce the successful deployment of erchef on Hosted Chef this week. Getting erchef into Hosted Chef has been a long and challenging project involving a good chunk of Opscode’s engineers.
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