Chef Infra Client 17 is on its way, simplifying how IT teams automate their infrastructure! The release of Chef Infra 17 is packed with features, upgrades and improvements, including adoption of Test Driven Development (TDD) practices. Chef is hosting a live launch event on Wednesday, April 28. We go live at 9:00 AM PT with a fun–packed, hour-long session featuring Chef Infra Product Manager, Tim Smith and Benny Vasquez, Chef Community and DevRel Manager. Tim and benny will highlight the […]
Read MoreCategory: webinar
Live Webinar: How to Improve IT Productivity for a Distributed Workforce
IT teams have recently seen a significant transformation in remote desktop management, with distributed work environment being the reality. Preparing for a distributed workforce is challenging when it comes to management of remote devices. Security and compliance have become a critical part of desktop management in this distributed world, and regular desktop management tasks can consume so much time that IT admins find it difficult to focus on higher priority tasks. So, how can you improve IT productivity as well as remote desktop manageability? Well, that’s what we’re here for! We’re hosting a webinar […]
Read MoreChef Infra Best Practices: #2 Serve-up Continuous Compliance with Chef Infra Compliance Phase
Second installment of the Shape-Up Your Infrastructure Webinar Series – “Configure Chef Infra & Compliance Using Built-In Functionality”. Today pretty much any IT system used to transact business or store customer data is subject to some level of compliance regulation and needs to be audited. The responsibility for conducting audits and ensuring systems are compliant has fallen on the shoulders of […]
Read MoreChef Infra Best Practices: #1 Using Cookstyle for Infra Client Upgrades
Believe it or not, infrastructure configuration solutions like Chef have been around for more than 10 years now. Over those 10 years, Chef has continued to improve the functionality of Chef Infra, requiring clients to not only upgrade to a new version, but also update some of the associated automation they have built. Depending on the current version being run, and the amount of automation built, upgrading Chef could have ended up being a […]
Read MoreCompliance as Code: The New Frontier in Compliance Automation
There is no doubt that DevSecOps practices accelerate the pace of digital transformation, but those same practices also introduce new challenges to maintaining compliance. Traditional compliance approaches risk slowing software delivery, exacerbating audit pain, and leaving organizations with an incomplete view of compliance posture. Fortunately, Code serves as a common source of truth, shared as a common language among the teams and can be used […]
Read MoreChef & Jenkins: Better Together
Chef Habitat changes the way applications are defined and deployed enabling automation teams to describe in code everything the application needs to be built, run, and managed. By standardizing this process, Chef Habitat provides a way to automate application deployment in even the most heterogeneous environments. To illustrate this, we recently hosted a webinar where […]
Read MoreActionable Insights with Chef Automate & ServiceNow
Automation has made it possible for organizations to innovate and iterate with unparalleled velocity, and manage rapidly expanding environments with the push of a button. These benefits, however, come hand in hand with a new set of challenges that must be addressed in order for that velocity to be sustainable long term. To be successful, […]
Read MoreCloud Security Assessments in AWS
In our most recent webinar, Cloud Security Assessment for AWS Instances, we took a look at how Chef can help to secure environments in Amazon Web Services. While our previous webinar focused on providing a high-level overview of the challenges organizations face when securing workloads in the cloud, this time around we gave a hands-on […]
Read MoreSecure Your Cloud Estate with Continuous Audits
To meet the demands of an ever more connected world, executing on a comprehensive cloud strategy has become a critical component for organizations at any scale. While cloud platforms have made it incredibly easy to define and scale environments on demand, with those capabilities come new challenges in how to validate that those environments have […]
Read MoreWhy Coded Enterprises are Winning at DevOps
More than 10 years ago Chef ushered in the era of DevOps with the introduction of Chef, the “infrastructure as code” tool. Fundamental to the success of Chef was the belief that “the best way to build software is to do it in close collaboration with the people who use it.” Today there are more […]
Read More