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Chef Accelerates Enterprise Ability to Deliver Effortless Infrastructure and Any App AnywhereCHEFCONF 2018 - Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced the next-generation automation platform, Chef Automate 2.0, that unifies infrastructure and applications work and enables enterprise organizations to rapidly and securely build, deploy and manage any application, legacy or modern, in any environment. Chef also announced availability of the new Chef Workstation, along with significant enhancements to Chef Application Automation (Habitat) and Chef Compliance Automation (InSpec). These new innovations were unveiled at ChefConf 2018, being held in Chicago from May 22-24. "The race to modernize IT by deploying and managing new and legacy applications in multiple environments is greatly hindered by the complexity of current toolsets, including containers," said Stephen Elliot, Program Vice President, Management Software and DevOps at IDC (News - Alert). "Solutions that span the application lifecycle and unify the teams currently tasked with owning and optimizing small pieces of the puzzle will enable enterprises to move their modernization initiatives forward, and achieve their business goals, more rapidly." A recent survey conducted by Chef of more than 365 DevOps, applications and infrastructure leaders revealed that while most (72 percent) see "time from code to production" and "time from commit to deploy" as the most critical measures of application deployment success, a majority (60 percent) also take days, weeks or months to complete application builds and (56 percent) need the same amount of time to deploy apps into production. The innovations introduced by Chef today are designed to accelerate those processes by enabling IT to deliver immediate, effortless and scalable infrastructure to achieve compliance at velocity and to build, deploy and manage any application in any environment. "Enterprise software development and delivery is so often gated by the operational concerns of infrastructure - from desktops to servers, storage and networks - applications end up as a second-class citizen," said Corey Scobie, SVP of Product and Engineering at Chef. "This is insufficient to thrive in a world where the primary interface to customers, and therefore revenue, is the application. The targeted solutions we introduced today enable executives and their organizations to make that critical shift quickly and easily." Chef Automate 2.0 Chef Automate has been rebuilt from the ground up to provide performance, scale and advanced analytics required by enterprises using DevOps at scale to meet the demands of post-digital transformation. Chef Automate now provides a single control plane for infrastructure and compliance automation to enable a closed-loop 'detect, correct, automate' process to make infrastructure effortless. New features include:
Chef Workstation enables DevOps teams and practitioners to complete ad-hoc DevOps tasks using all of the familiar Chef capabilities, without agents. This provides a simple and effective way to use Chef to complete tasks and then seamlessly scale those tasks through Chef Automate. Capabilities include:
Habitat - Automate Any App Anywhere - Build, Deploy, Manage Habitat supports an ever-widening array of supported application release scenarios, enabling teams to 'build, deploy and manage' any app, anywhere. It is ideally suited to 'Lift, Shift and Modernize' initiatives as enterprises seek to find a unified way to ship all of their apps - from monoliths to microservices, bare metal to containers and datacenter to cloud. A fast-growing number of enterprises, including top US ticket sales site Ticketmaster and Alaska Airlines, recently named the top airline in the US1, are finding great benefits in using Habitat to deploy applications in any environment. "We're very interested in what Habitat can help us with," said Stephen Nelson-Smith, principal infrastructure developer, Ticketmaster. "From the work we've done so far, it allows the iterative migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud by enabling us to build a single, intelligent artifact that moves, unchanged, from development to production whilst wrapping a consistent cloud-native interface around legacy applications. This is giving us a clear path to implement our strategy to containerize and cluster our services." "In today's world, supporting containers and microservices is a necessity," said Steven Mullinax, director of infrastructure engineering, Alaska Airlines. "Habitat can help get us there with applications that run anywhere." New capabilities include:
InSpec - Compliance at Velocity to Accelerate DevSecOps InSpec is the first step in Chef's 'Detect, Correct, Automate' approach to cloud migration and continuous automation. It helps organizations maintain an up-to-date view of compliance status in production, detect security issues long before they reach production and reduce risk while delivering applications faster. New capabilities include:
"Enterprise IT leaders face a variety of challenges regarding the need to modernize applications and infrastructure to maintain competitive advantage and increase user satisfaction as they accelerate post-digital transformation," said Barry Crist, CEO of Chef. "Chef allows them to build, deploy and manage all applications - legacy or new - much more easily and consistently, in any environment. Our technology is a level-setter, allowing them to match or even exceed the application deployment velocity achieved by even the most innovative and well-resourced hyperscalers in the market today." About Chef Chef is the leader in Continuous Automation software, an innovator in cloud native operations and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Chef works with more than a thousand of the most innovative companies around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation, providing the practices and platform to deliver software at speed. Chef Automate is Chef's Continuous Automation Platform which is powered by an awesome community and open source software engines: Chef for infrastructure, Habitat for cloud native operations, and InSpec for compliance. For more visit http://www.chef.io 1 "The USA's No. 1 airline is … Alaska Airlines" - USA Today, March 6, 2018 - https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2018/03/06/usas-no-1-airline-alaska-airlines/399484002/
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