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Chef 360
The Hidden Cost of Uncontrolled Automation Execution
Automation failures often stem not from bad tools, but from unmanaged execution. When separate approved workflows collide, organizations pay hidden costs in investigation, coordination, recovery, audits, and delays. Platform-governed automation provides a single trusted execution path, improving visibility, control, accountability, and trust without requiring teams to rewrite existing automation.
Read moreWhy the Future of Automation Is Platform-Governed, Not Tool-Centric
Most enterprises have succeeded with automation, but often in disconnected silos using tools such as Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform and custom scripts. This creates "automation islands" where teams lack visibility into each other's changes, making audits, troubleshooting and governance difficult. Rather than attempting costly rip-and-replace standardisation efforts, organisations should implement a shared execution layer that governs how automation is executed across tools. This approach improves visibility, auditability, execution control and operational consistency while allowing teams to continue using their existing automation investments.
Read moreUpgrading from CINC to Chef 360: Building a Future-Ready Automation Platform
A practical guide to upgrading from CINC to Chef 360, covering migration phases, key considerations and how to transition to a cloud-native, policy-driven automation platform while minimizing risk and maximizing the long-term value.
Read moreYour NVIDIA DGX Spark Isn’t Just a Developer Box. It’s Enterprise Infrastructure. Manage It Like One.
By Derek Kiely
By Mark Cavins
Apply a zero-trust, policy-driven lifecycle model to NVIDIA DGX Spark using Chef. Standardise AI infrastructure, enforce compliance and manage workloads at enterprise scale.
Read moreIntroducing Progress Chef Opsmith Early Access: AI-Driven Operations in Chef 360
Transform infrastructure ops with Chef Opsmith-AI automation in Chef 360 for faster execution, sandbox validation and scalable workflows.
Read moreOperating Infrastructure at Scale - Beyond Jobs and Workflows
Organizations are shifting from isolated servers to shared, dynamic infrastructure platforms, increasing the need for continuous visibility and control at scale. While automation jobs and workflows help execute changes, they fall short in maintaining a trusted, real-time understanding of system state. Over time, drift, loss of context and fragmented processes increase operational risk and cost. The key challenge is not executing change, but ensuring systems remain aligned with intended state under constant change. A modern operating model must link execution with ongoing validation, enabling teams to detect drift early, maintain compliance and act with confidence. Chef 360 addresses this gap by combining automation with operational context, giving teams a continuous, reliable view of infrastructure posture across environments. This shifts operations from tracking past actions to maintaining real-time operational confidence.
Read moreModernize Automation Without Rip and Replace: How Chef 360 Can Help
Modernizing IT doesn’t have to mean ripping and replacing existing systems. As complexity from cloud, AI and compliance grows, teams need a more practical approach that builds on what already works. Progress Chef 360 enables this shift by letting teams reuse existing automation, gain unified visibility, enforce compliance and scale efficiently. With AI-powered capabilities, it helps organisations evolve their infrastructure steadily - without disruption or unnecessary overhead.
Read moreGovern at Scale and Make Automation Auditable and Predictable
By Mark Cavins
At enterprise scale, automation without governance creates risk. Progress Chef 360 embeds governance directly into execution, ensuring every automated action is authorised, traceable and auditable - regardless of the tool used. By combining policy‑as‑code, continuous compliance, closed‑loop remediation and human‑governed AIOps, Chef transforms fragmented automation into a predictable, scalable operating model. Unlike Ansible, Puppet and SaltStack, Chef delivers built‑in governance that grows with your enterprise, enabling teams to move fast without sacrificing control, compliance or trust.
Read moreBeyond YAML: The ROI Architecture of Policy-as-Code with Progress Chef
By Mark Cavins
Discover how Progress Chef improves ROI with policy-as-code, reducing YAML sprawl, toil, and MTTR through scalable, testable infrastructure automation
Read moreDrive Talent Strategy and Operational Resilience for Your Infrastructure with Progress Chef
Learn how Progress Chef 360 helps teams attract top SRE talent and reduce MTTR with policy-as-code, automation and real-time visibility.
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