Scalable Enterprise Job Orchestration for Your IT Infrastructure
Execute Any Job. On Any Node. At Any Time.
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Progress® Chef® Cloud is a cloud-native platform that will help you perform any workload with any payload (Whatever) on any target (Wherever) in your IT fleet at any time (Whenever).
Orchestration That Brings Workflows Together
Multiple tools and workflows make it difficult for administrators to maintain and manage IT devices in large and complex environments. To handle such scenarios, orchestration is required. Orchestration brings people and tools and workflows together and streamlines IT processes. With Progress® Chef® Courier™, administrators have flexible and granular control over numerous fleet actions, including targeting and timing dimensions. From routine tasks to critical incident response actions, Chef makes processes fast and efficient with its robust orchestration capabilities.
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Job Orchestration with Chef - Key Benefits
Control Over All Dimensions of Change Rollout
Target specific nodes for specific changes – ad hoc or scheduled targeting based on pre-defined conditions.
Easy Upgrades and Maintenance of Your Fleet
Use cookbooks, policies, shell scripts or JSON as jobs. Upgrade applications across nodes with ease and rollout changes with flexibility.
Reactive Work Made Easy
Apply patches and security fixes or rollback changes as and when needed. Create incident response cookbooks and orchestrate remediation.
Turn Your Team Members Into Experts
The orchestration capability of Chef empowers every member of the team to run self-service automation. This reduces the dependability on individual experts especially during threat incidents or business downtimes. Different stakeholders can set up, trigger, stop, restart and run numerous actions across nodes in the fleet based on requirements. Responsibilities are shared and no individuals or teams are burdened with routine or critical remediation tasks.
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Job Orchestration with Chef - Use Cases
Service Request
Other Workflows/Tools
Perform Any Action - Whatever
The Whatever dimension allows users to control the kind of job they want to perform.
- Scripts
- OS Commands
- Cookbooks
- Policyfiles
- Compliance Profiles
- Application Packages
Target Any Node(s) - Wherever
The Wherever dimension allows users to target the nodes they want to run jobs on.
- Node ID
- Query
- Shared Query
- Saved Lists
- Other Custom Parameters
The distribution pattern can also be customized.
- Sequential
- Parallel
- Batched
Run Any Time - Whenever
The Whenever dimension allows users to control the timing of the actions to be performed.
- On-demand
- Scheduled
- Reoccurring
- Exceptions
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the benefits of using an orchestration tool?
An orchestration tool streamlines workflows, automates tasks, improves consistency, reduces errors, enhances scalability, boosts productivity, and ensures efficient resource utilisation across systems.
Can job orchestration tools improve IT efficiency?
Yes, job orchestration tools can improve IT efficiency by automating workflows, reducing manual errors, optimizing resource usage, enhancing scalability, improving visibility, accelerating deployments, ensuring consistency, simplifying operations and boosting overall productivity across systems.
Does Chef support both on-premise and cloud orchestration?
Yes, you can now reap the benefits of the Chef platform on-premise as well as on the cloud. You can also use Chef on devices where you cannot install an agent like network management devices.
Can Chef help with patch management and compliance reporting?
Yes, you can use Chef to easily and seamlessly deploy patches to any number of nodes in your system. You can also schedule compliance and security scans to keep your system up to date with regulatory standards.
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