On August 10, 2020, Chef was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2020. In particular, the Forrester report stated: “Chef Software’s solution is a good fit for customers that want class-leading governance and compliance features.” We believe this result acknowledges the significant progress Chef has made, along with our […]
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Automated Application Rollback with Chef
This is a follow up to the post Automated Rollback the Ultimate Application Release Insurance Policy in which we discuss key implementation considerations related to application rollback and rollforward. Chef Habitat is an open-source automation solution that enables you to define, package and deliver your applications to any environment without rewriting or refactoring. The software […]
Read MoreAutomated Application Rollback Insurance for Release Teams
Sometimes in IT certain terms take on a life of their own. They push past their original meaning and become something different, rollback is one of these terms. In the language of enterprise IT, “rollback” means getting the system back into a working state. This ensures a system can be immediately restored if a system […]
Read MoreNow Available: Chef Compliance
Building on Chef’s long history of innovation in compliance automation, Chef Compliance, available today, builds on Chef InSpec to help enterprises maintain compliance and prevent security incidents across heterogeneous hybrid and multi-cloud estates while improving speed and efficiency. Standards-based audit and remediation content, easily-tuned baselines, and comprehensive visibility and control make it easy to maintain […]
Read MoreEdge Computing: Compliance, Developer Productivity, and Configuration Inconsistencies Top the List of Key Challenges
The edge computing term has become one of the next big buzz words in the IT world. The concept of edge computing is not new and has been around for a while. In fact, almost every organization probably already has one or more use cases that would fall into the bucket of edge computing. Edge […]
Read MoreChef for Compliance Announcement: Waivers Support
Today Chef announces compliance waiver support within Chef InSpec and Chef Automate. Using Chef for compliance provides a holistic solution for enterprises to achieve continuous compliance. Companies audit their various endpoints for compliance against CIS or DISA standards using Chef InSpec, while viewing the aggregate compliance state of their fleet in Chef Automate. Today, customers […]
Read MoreSurvey Results: DevSecOps Drives Efficiency, Security, and Agility
Recently, Chef commissioned a survey of security professionals in order to provide greater insight into what security leaders are most concerned with and how collaboration with I&O (Infrastructure & Operations) is needed within enterprise-sized organizations. We sought out to determine how important DevSecOps is within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), the importance of Audits […]
Read MoreChef InSpec recognized for Compliance Automation Tools in Gartner Report
We believe Gartner provides very useful guidance for organizations struggling with balancing the need to deliver products and services to market faster while having to deal with regulations and compliance requirements that may overburden their teams. The report is titled 3 Steps to Ensure Compliance and Audit Success with DevOps, which Chef has made available […]
Read MoreSecuring Access in Cloud Environments with Saviynt and Chef
The days where we wondered whether or not our organization would choose to migrate workloads to the cloud are long behind us. Today the question is not if we’ll move these workloads, but how many, and how quickly we can do so. As more and more of us undergo cloud migration initiatives, we find we […]
Read MoreChef Compliance 0.11.1 release
Chef Compliance 0.11.1 is now available from the Chef downloads site. This is a minor release update which is recommended for all users for Chef Compliance. **Implemented enhancements:** – Improve feedback when profiles uploaded by reporting any `inspec check` errors – Improvements handling metadata in `inspec.yml`. Only the name of the profile needs to be […]
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