Chef Automate

As the management environment expands, operational costs can increase at an alarming rate with manual configuration and deployment practices. With Chef, the infrastructure is defined as code, the configuration policy is flexible, versionable, testable, and readable. The servers managed by Chef are continually evaluated based on the required status and the configuration deviations are automatically corrected so that configuration changes are universally applied.

As the scale and complexity of our environment grows, the manual process can become an obstacle to deployment changes while maintaining reliability and consistency. Because the system can not be found during software update or periodic maintenance, business will have unpredictable setting bias. It was found that unexpected failure diagnosis is difficult in the second half of the development cycle because the environment setting from development to production is contradictory. All of these lead to release delays, costly rollbacks, and time spent on unscheduled work.

Chef automates the process of managing the settings so that all the systems in charge are correctly and consistently set up. Since Chef applies updates dynamically, you can make conditional changes based on production environment or hardware so that the same code for configuration development can always be used for production. The "test and fix" behavior built into Chef means that the system can continuously update its settings and Chef will only perform actions when the machine deviates from the desired state. Chef makes your infrastructure configuration testable, portable, and auditable and gives your team the freedom to concentrate on building new innovations instead of resolving old ones

Chef has built-in verification to change the setting only when the system deviates from the state you want to define. In this way, you can continually re-run Chef to automatically correct the deviation of the configuration, but do nothing on a properly configured system.

Each time Chef sets up the system Chef Automate collects the results in each managed environment and provides filterable insight and a fully auditable configuration change history. As Chef's strategy changes, Chef Automate keeps track of who made changes. With Chef Automate, you can always know exactly how your environment is configured and manage dozens of systems or thousands of systems.

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Each time Chef sets up the system Chef Automate collects the results in each managed environment and provides filterable insight and a fully auditable configuration change history. As Chef's strategy changes, Chef Automate keeps track of who made changes. With Chef Automate, you can always know exactly how your environment is configured and manage dozens of systems or thousands of systems.

Chef automates the process of managing the settings so that all the systems in charge are correctly and consistently set up. Since Chef applies updates dynamically, you can make conditional changes based on production environment or hardware so that the same code for configuration development can always be used for production. The "test and fix" behavior built into Chef means that the system can continuously update its settings and Chef will only perform actions when the machine deviates from the desired state. Chef makes your infrastructure configuration testable, portable, and auditable and gives your team the freedom to concentrate on building new innovations instead of resolving old ones