Progress Chef
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Overview
Progress Chef is a powerful automation platform that turns infrastructure into code. It is used for configuration management, application delivery, and compliance. With Chef, you can define your infrastructure, security policies, and application configurations as 'recipes' and 'cookbooks'. Chef Infra is used to enforce these policies, automatically bringing systems into the desired state and keeping them there, making it a key tool for continuous compliance and DevSecOps.
✨ Key Features
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Ruby-based DSL
- Automated configuration management
- Chef InSpec for compliance and security testing
- Continuous automation and delivery pipelines
- Centralized management dashboard (Chef Automate)
- Pre-built content from Chef Supermarket
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Strong testing and compliance framework with Chef InSpec
- Procedural, code-based approach offers flexibility for developers
- Mature platform with a large community and extensive pre-built content (Supermarket)
Unique Value: Enables teams to codify their infrastructure, applications, and security policies, providing a consistent and automated approach to achieving speed, scale, and compliance.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Automating compliance with standards like CIS, HIPAA, and SOX using Chef InSpec
- Managing complex, heterogeneous environments (cloud, on-prem, Windows, Linux)
- Building auditable, code-based records of infrastructure and security configurations
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Simple, ad-hoc remote execution tasks
- Teams without any development or scripting skills, due to its code-centric approach
🏆 Alternatives
Chef's integrated compliance tool, InSpec, provides a more robust and developer-friendly framework for testing security and compliance as code compared to the built-in capabilities of some competitors.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise Support Plans tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 14-day free trial
Free tier: Various open source components are available (Chef Infra Client, InSpec, etc.).
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