Chef

Chef is a DevOps platform from Progress that automates how infrastructure is set up, deployed and kept compliant. It covers configuration testing, validation and server data storage.

What Chef offers

• Configuration management — defines infrastructure in code so settings stay consistent at cloud scale.
• Policy as code — checks that systems follow security and compliance rules, with audits on demand.
• Workflow automation — runs jobs on any node, including agentless execution and air-gapped set-ups.
• Operational insight — dashboards and automated detection that carry an issue through to remediation.
• Opsmith — turns an operational intent into action across DevOps stages.

Who it works with

The platform is aimed at enterprises and their DevOps and infrastructure teams. It is offered as software as a service, on-premises, and through marketplaces including AWS and Azure.

Key facts

• Owner: Progress
• Delivery: software as a service, on-premises or via marketplaces