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Chef is a popular tool for
configuration management of IT infrastructure. Its flagship enterprise
solution, Chef, is a strong choice for experienced DevOps teams who want
to automate their development and deployment infrastructure.By automating your cloud
infrastructure and handling routine manual actions, Chef frees up time for your
DevOps team to be more agile and efficient.Your compliance and security
policies can be encoded as part of a Chef recipe and tested automatically
before deployment.
Infrastructure
automation tools such as Chef and its
competitor Puppet have grown rapidly
in the past few years, as businesses recognize how they can make IT management
easier, more efficient, and more flexible. In particular, Chef has become
well-known for its concept of “infrastructure as code,” in which machine-readable
files (called Chef Recipes) are used to describe how computing hardware and
network infrastructure should be installed and configured. No matter how your
infrastructure is deployed – whether in the cloud, on-premises or a hybrid
combination of the two – Chef’s infrastructure automation capabilities allow
you to respond and adapt to a changing business landscape.
Here’s a look at six of the most important benefits of Chef.
1.
Accelerating Software Delivery
The “speed” of software
development refers to how quickly the software is able to change in response to
new requirements or conditions. Analysts measure speed in terms of both how
frequently the software is deployed and the period of time between a new commit
to the code base and the subsequent deployment.
High-performing IT
organizations are the ones that are able to deploy their software on demand and
within one hour of a new commit. Automating your IT infrastructure – building
new environments, testing and reviewing changes to the code base, deploying new
software versions and more – is one of the most important shifts you can make
to bring your business up to speed.
2. Increasing
Service Resiliency
Of course, speed is far
from the only important factor. It’s not enough to review and deploy changes
quickly if these changes also add bugs or make crashes a more likely
occurrence. By catching bugs and issues before they occur and monitoring for
problems, infrastructure automation increases your system’s resiliency just as
much as it accelerates delivery speed.
An application’s efficiency
and resiliency are measured by two metrics: the rate that new changes break the
system and the mean time to recover from downtime. Efficient IT organizations
typically have a change failure rate of less than 15 percent, and take less
than an hour to recover.
3. Improving
Risk Management
The third indicator of
high-performing IT organizations is risk, which is defined as the quality of
changes made to the software. Like speed and efficiency, risk is assessed using
two metrics: the frequency of compliance audits and the mean time to remediate
after the discovery of a defect or vulnerability.
Chef’s infrastructure
automation capabilities are able to lower risk and improve compliance at all
stages of development. Your compliance and security policies can be encoded as
part of a Chef recipe and tested automatically before deployment.
4. Accelerating Cloud Adoption
The allure of the cloud is
strong these days, and infrastructure automation with Chef helps get you there.
Although many organizations are interested in migrating to the cloud, such a
move represents a serious undertaking, with many potential bumps and roadblocks
along the way.
By automating your cloud
infrastructure and handling routine manual actions, Chef frees up time for your
DevOps team to be more agile and efficient. Your applications and workloads can
be moved quickly and smoothly, while your servers and infrastructure are
automatically installed, configured, and provisioned according to Chef recipes
that you write ahead of time.
5. Managing
Both Data Center and Cloud Environments
Of course, thanks to the
incredible growth of cloud computing, organizations can choose from any number
of cloud providers depending on their business needs and objectives. In
addition, many organizations choose to remain partially or fully on-premises
for a variety of reasons – and therefore require a solution that fits their
needs.
Under the Chef umbrella,
you can manage all your cloud and on-premises environments at once, including
servers running the Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Solaris operating systems.
Chef is also a “cloud agnostic” solution, allowing you to keep using it even as
you change cloud providers.
6. Delivering
All Your Infrastructure – Any App, Everywhere, Continuously
These days, many
organizations feel stifled and paralyzed by their own IT infrastructures, which
grow increasingly complicated with an ever-higher number of applications and
hardware. As a result, teams have to devote time and effort to unraveling this
knotty problem, which in turn causes greater inefficiencies and lower output.
Chef is able to cut through
this complexity to streamline your IT operations and workflow. From building
and testing all the way through delivery, monitoring, and troubleshooting, Chef
provides a pipeline for continuous deployment that you can use to achieve more
and make better decisions.
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