Chef Automate
DevOps Dashboard for Operational Visibility.
Overview
Chef Automate provides a unified view and analytics for infrastructure and compliance managed by Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, and Chef Habitat. It offers actionable insights into configuration and compliance status across the entire IT estate, enabling teams to collaborate and maintain an auditable history of all changes.
✨ Key Features
- Unified Fleet View
- Continuous Compliance Auditing
- Actionable Insights & Dashboards
- Role-Based Access Control
- Integration with Chef Infra, InSpec, Habitat
- Automated Remediation
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Tight integration of infrastructure, application, and compliance automation.
- Strong focus on compliance as code with Chef InSpec.
- Procedural, 'how-to' approach with Chef Infra recipes.
Unique Value: Provides a single dashboard for collaborating and gaining actionable insights across the entire automated DevSecOps workflow.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Providing a real-time dashboard to track compliance status against CIS benchmarks across a fleet of servers.
- Visualizing the history and success/failure of Chef Infra runs to troubleshoot configuration issues.
- Integrating compliance scanning directly into CI/CD pipelines.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Organizations not using the Chef ecosystem of tools.
- Teams looking for a multi-cloud provisioning and orchestration tool.
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike Puppet's model-driven approach, Chef offers a more flexible, developer-friendly procedural approach. Compared to Ansible, it uses an agent-based model which can be more robust for continuous enforcement. Automate provides a more comprehensive visibility layer than what is offered natively by competitors.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Varies by plan tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 60-day free trial
Free tier: NA
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