UPDATED 13:51 EDT / APRIL 21 2014

Chef collaborating with industry leaders to encourage Agile development

chef-logo-chef-websiteAutomated infrastructure with Chef allows DevOps teams to reduce time-to-market, manage scalability, complexity and the security of systems.

Chef can automate the configuration, testing and deployment of applications, regardless of the number of servers. This is why tech leaders are collaborating with Chef to enable enterprise businesses to better deliver their goods and services to customers.

During the #ChefConf 2014 conference, Chef Software announced an expanded ecosystem of cooperating companies including Amazon Web Services, Docker, Google, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Rackspace, VMware, and others to accelerate software delivery and simplify infrastructure management.

The partner program is designed to encourage DevOps culture to satisfy consumer demand, and to react to changes in real time and at scale. It includes joint marketing and sales opportunities, and access to extensive training resources.

Expanded ecosystem .

 

Chef has been making inroads into the configuration management frameworks vertical, gaining ground against its older and more mature competitors. Chef is the default automation engine of AWS for its application management solution, and the company is working with AWS Premier Consulting Partner, 2nd Watch, to deliver comprehensive support and services to customers by using Chef with AWS.

Chef is also collaborating with Microsoft Open Technologies to deliver a series of Chef Cookbooks providing cloud infrastructure automation capabilities for Microsoft Azure. Chef also supports IBM Power Systems and the AIX operating system for rapid resource provisioning and full application lifecycle management.

In addition, Chef is being used in Rackspace DevOps Automation Service to automate the scaling of its hybrid cloud infrastructure and applications. Rackspace customers can use Enterprise Chef to automate the creation of development, staging, and production environments in Rackspace’s open, hybrid cloud. Chef provides a shared repository of code for automating resources and applications.

Chef also integrates directly with Google Compute Engine (GCE) to provide robust configuration management, resource provisioning, and application deployment capabilities for GCE customers.

New tools for DevOps

 

Also announced at the #ChefConf 2014 conference, Chef is extending its open source and commercial automation platforms, adding new features to accelerate software delivery and simplify infrastructure management. Chef actions is part of a series of upgrades to the Enterprise Chef automation environment that are intended to increase the appeal of the open source IT framework to enterprise IT organizations.

Other new elements of the Chef framework include Chef Metal and Chef Actions. Chef Metal is a tool that automates the configuration of clusters, multiple machines connected together for a task, by allowing clusters to be provisioned and configured in the same way an admin would act on a single node. Chef Actions is a new feature of Enterprise Chef that provides users with visibility into all activity on the Chef server. Chef Actions delivers notifications on who is changing what on the Chef server and allows administrators to track cookbook usage, roles, environments, and changes to infrastructure, all through a dashboard.

The automation company released Chef DK, a developer kit that makes it easier to bring together multiple open source components for to automate IT functions. It features some of the best of open source technology including Berkshelf, Chef Spec, Food Critic, and Test Kitchen to deliver speed and scale automation.

Chef is also starting to open source its community site for developers to build their own open source community resource. With the Supermarket community, any organization can leverage this collection of code and best practices in order to create its own community resource.

[photo credit: Chef Software, http://www.getchef.com/chef/]

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