Until now, there have only been two approaches to deal with business-critical legacy applications written in a pre-cloud era: rewrite them, which is a painful, risky and long-lived process (and in some cases, not possible); or lift-and-shift, which doesn’t address the underlying technical debt or the difficulty of managing and deploying this software. In our […]
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Preparing for Audits with InSpec
Preparing for a compliance audit can be an overwhelming process. Coordinating and translating requirements between teams is often a time consuming, manual process, regressions uncovered between audits can drive friction between internal IT and security teams, and between the rise of cloud and container solutions and numerous emerging regulatory frameworks, the sheer breadth of what […]
Read MoreMigrating Legacy Windows Applications with Habitat
Two years ago, Chef launched Habitat as a way to enable application teams to build, deploy, and manage any application in any environment. By packaging applications such that they can be deployed to any runtime, from bare metal servers to containers, Habitat makes it easier than ever to ensure your apps run anywhere your business […]
Read MoreBest Practices for Migrating Your Chef Server
Last week we presented a webinar Best Practices for Migrating Your Chef Server, which was a follow-up to the popular blog post from 2017, Migrating your Chef Server with knife-ec-backup and knife-tidy. During this talk, our participants brought so many excellent questions that we couldn’t answer them all. In this post, we’ll attempt to […]
Read MoreAugment your Audits with InSpec 2.0
InSpec is a powerful framework for automating the testing and auditing of environments you manage. With the recent release of InSpec 2.0, it’s gotten even better with various performance improvements, extra resources, and for the first time, the ability to scan not only servers, but cloud endpoints with new AWS and Microsoft Azure resources. Last […]
Read MoreMigrating to the Cloud with Chef and CTP
A successful cloud migration requires careful planning. Over the past few months, we’ve been taking a look at how your organization can prepare for that migration. In January, my colleague Matt Carter introduced the Shared Responsibility Model, and how Chef can help you validate your areas of concern. In February, I presented a cloud-focused webinar […]
Read MoreDeliver Compliant Systems With CloudBolt and Chef Automate
Installing and configuring multi-node systems are common enterprise tasks that can require a tremendous amount of time and resources. As technology continues to evolve, so will the need to effectively deploy and manage these systems. Chef and CloudBolt work together to simplify the installation, configuration, and ongoing compliance, greatly increasing the scalability and stability of […]
Read MoreAutomate Compliance with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
In an era of rapidly developing threats and continually evolving compliance frameworks, we need to be able to react quickly. The most successful organizations pursue continuous automation in three stages: detect, correct, and automate. In a recent webinar, Mark Rambow, a Software Development Manager with Amazon Web Services and I demonstrated how to implement this three […]
Read MorePreparing for Chef 14 release and Chef 12 End-of-Life
As we previously announced, April 2018 will mark two important milestones for Chef Client and ChefDK: Chef Client 14 and ChefDK 3 will be released near the beginning of April. This represent the fastest and easiest-to-use versions of Chef to date. Chef Client 12 and ChefDK 1 will become end-of-life on April 30, 2018. This means […]
Read MoreSuccessfully Migrate to the Cloud with Chef and AWS
By providing organizations with the ability to launch and scale environments on-demand, the cloud has changed how we develop applications and deploy infrastructure, allowing us to iterate faster than previously imaginable. It’s no surprise, then, that cloud migrations have become a hot topic in our industry. A recent survey of Chef users found that a […]
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