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Progress Chef Made Easy: Beating the Ansible Myth
Discover how Progress Chef simplifies configuration management with modern features like YAML and JSON recipes, agentless execution, local mode and robust testing via Test Kitchen. Learn why Chef is now easier to adopt and scale than Ansible, especially for compliance, heterogeneous environments and enterprise needs.
The End of an Era: Chef Infra Server Transitions to Chef 360 Platform
Progress Chef Infra Server is now deprecated (open source) and will no longer receive support. It is reaching the end of its life as of November 2026.
From Audit to Action: How Progress Chef and CIS Premium Content Drive Continuous Compliance
Regulations demand proof. Threats demand action. Chef + CIS Premium Content helps translate trusted CIS benchmarks into actionable guardrails for modern security.
Reuse and Scale Your Ansible Workflows with Progress Chef 360
Optimize playbooks, cut costs and maintain consistency with Progress Chef Ansible Interpreter.
Blueprints of Stability: Operationalizing Versioning in Your Pipeline
A complete, branch-by-branch testing and CI/CD strategy for Chef cookbooks and InSpec profiles - covering triggers, stages, performance thresholds and hotfix handling.
Ushering in the Next Era of Infrastructure Automation with Declarative State Management in the Progress Chef 360 Platform
Learn how the Progress Chef 360 platform’s cloud-native architecture, DSM capabilities and unified DevSecOps features empower organizations with reliability, scalability and security.
Blueprints of Stability in a Shifting DevSecOps World: Why Versioning Still Wins
In fast-paced DevSecOps environments, disciplined version and release control is the foundation of scalable automation. Learn how enterprises balance agility with governance using branching strategies, promotion logic and security-aligned Progress Chef workflows.
When Free Isn’t Safe: The Real Cost of Ignoring CVE Risks in Open-Source Tools
In an era where AI is rewriting the rules of innovation, one thing remains stubbornly unchanged: the relentless rise of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Learn how the “free” version of open-source Chef software can be a risky choice for your organization.
Simplify and Unify Enterprise Infrastructure Management with Progress WhatsUp Gold and Progress Chef
Progress now offers a powerful integration between Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring and Progress Chef DevSecOps. You might wonder: what’s a network observability tool doing teaming up with a DevSecOps automation platform? The answer: almost everything.