DevOps practitioners often struggle with complex workflows and rely on incompatible third-party tools or unsustainable custom solutions. These situations highlight the need for a unified orchestration solution. While the Progress Chef ecosystem supports diverse automation needs within the DevOps space, orchestration has remained untouched until recently. In June 2024, the Chef team introduced Progress Chef Courier, an enterprise-grade job orchestration solution that effectively streamlines DevOps processes.
Chef Courier is an enterprise job orchestration and automation solution that enables you to perform any action over your IT fleet with immense flexibility. Let’s look at what has been made possible for you with Chef Courier:
You can now automate routine tasks to enhance operational productivity. You can automate the task and schedule it to run on any device you choose at any designated time. Doing this will allow you to concentrate on strategic initiatives rather than daily maintenance and troubleshooting.
Chef Courier helps you respond to incidents faster. From security incident response to patching, it allows you to respond quickly by creating workflows that can scan, identify and remediate the issue. You can then schedule these workflows to run immediately or, when appropriate, later.
Anyone comfortable reading and writing JSON files can start working with Chef immediately. This democratizes DevOps by expanding the power of Chef beyond niche teams and involving all stakeholders in the process.
Chef provides greater flexibility on all dimensions when performing change rollouts. You can perform any action, change or update on any node whenever you wish, giving you granular control over your fleet.
Customers can explore other use cases discussed here.
The product has been available as an on-premises deployment until now. All the Chef orchestration and node management capabilities are available as a SaaS deployment and can be accessed in the Progress Chef 360 SaaS Beta Program.
Chef 360 SaaS is a cloud-native platform that enables DevOps and IT teams to orchestrate workflows, allowing for more seamless scale and flexible adaptation. It’s designed to provide a unified user experience to our customers. Some of the key benefits of the Chef 360 SaaS platform include:
- Accelerated time-to-value for customers since your users won’t need to go through the hassle of installing another solution
- Simplified scalability, including devices with multi-environment support
- Unified orchestration and node management
- Reduced and reliable operational costs as it’s hosted and managed by Progress
The SaaS solution will be valuable for customers eager to use Chef. For the past decade, Chef has been a powerful automation tool for automating infrastructure management. With added features and deployment methods, Chef can provide value in many additional use cases.
Chef can now orchestrate routine workflows and manage various other scenarios, such as incident management, node management, controlled upgrades and updates, patch management and scheduled compliance scans. Combining these use cases in a SaaS deployment allows companies to get started more easily and reduces the time to value of using Chef.
The Chef 360 SaaS platform has an intuitive user interface (UI). It enhances the customer experience by providing an advanced interface for managing and executing jobs on the managed nodes. The UI provides extensive control and flexibility over how customers can perform actions on the fleet. More importantly, the UI-based workflows will also simplify the practitioners' learning process in using the solution.
Overall, the Chef 360 SaaS platform will help provide a unified user experience and an optimized user journey for our customers. It’s built for the cloud and designed to ease customers' scalability needs as a single on-demand platform. Now is your chance to experience Chef job orchestration and node management capabilities. Join the Chef 360 SaaS Beta Program today!
