Webinar: Using Chef in Barclays

Challenge

Barclays is part of a heavily regulated industry, so there is a need for clear reporting for audits, controls and governance policies. They also need to deploy and maintain 110,000 servers with all of the accompanying patches, updates, versioning, and changes they require, with a mix of Windows and Linux OSs in a highly mission-critical environment.

Solution

Deployed Chef Infra, Chef Automate and Chef InSpec with a self-service front end and automated cookbook testing built into what the company now terms its “Chef Cookbook Delivery Pipeline.” Chef InSpec with Test Kitchen is used for testing in dev and for compliance reporting using CIS profiles across the estate.

Impact

Barclays is able to fully automate its dev/prod pipeline while maintaining compliance, streamlining its software production, and enabling IT to add value to internal teams and end-users by accelerating new service and product delivery.