Migrating Legacy Windows Applications with Habitat

Today’s point-of-sale (POS) systems increasingly resemble cloud or datacenter-based IT applications. So why can’t we innovate on the POS at the same speed as our mobile teams or other web leaders?

What do you do with business critical legacy applications written in a pre-cloud era that create drag on your ability to deliver customer value: painfully rewrite them, or lift-and-shift them, which doesn’t address the underlying technical debt?

Preparing for audits can be time-consuming and stressful without automation. Security regressions introduced in-between audits often go uncaptured, and existing tools and practices often scan systems only in production, where identified issues can be costly to remediate.

Customers using Chef and InSpec for infrastructure and compliance automation respectively, need a way to respond to automation errors quickly. These errors could indicate that a critical service is down, or, more seriously, that systems have drifted out of compliance. ServiceNow is an enterprise-grade, hosted IT Service Management (ITSM) system with several modules including Incident Management. We will demonstrate the newly-released integration between Chef Automate and ServiceNow Incident Management and how it allows such errors to notify the right teams and, if necessary, be paged in order to quickly triage and resolve failures.

Reduce the risk and increase the efficiency of your AWS applications by automating compliance with OpsWorks for Chef Automate. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is a managed solution delivered by AWS that easily lets you set up “Chef Automate as a service” freeing you from routine tasks involved with operating and maintaining instances of Chef Automate, enabling you to define and continually inspect/maintain the state of your EC2 system configurations in AWS and beyond.

Bringing a DevOps approach to network device compliance. Enterprises are under increasing pressure to demonstrate to auditors the security and compliance of their entire IT infrastructure. This includes critical network equipment such as switches, routers, and firewalls. Yet the physical network device layer has been one in which the level of automation is low: Gartner estimates that only 10% of network infrastructure has been automated today. Lack of automation around change management and security of network equipment configurations is both a business and security risk.

Packaging 13 year old technology and running in modern compute environments. Most cloud migration journeys at some point involve the need to migrate legacy applications from outdated and unsupported versions of Windows to more modern operating system. This is never a simple task. Attempting such a migration using manual methodologies simply does not scale and cannot be easily replicated across environments.

Reduce the risk and increase the efficiency of your AWS applications by automating compliance with OpsWorks for Chef Automate. OpsWorks for Chef Automate is a managed solution delivered by AWS that easily lets you set up “Chef Automate as a service” freeing you from routine tasks involved with operating and maintaining instances of Chef Automate, enabling you to define and continually inspect/maintain the state of your EC2 system configurations in AWS and beyond.

Nathen Harvey, VP of Community Development at Chef, sits down with the 2016 Awesome Community Chefs and talk about what makes the Chef Community special and discuss the upcoming Chef Community Summits.

Aaron Kalin of DNSimple goes over the lessons learned in budgeting, hiring, and onboarding their first ever apprentice along with why and how you might want to start a similar program at your company. Aaron will conclude with an update of where their apprentice is now and answer any questions you might have.

Discover multiple techniques for retrieving secrets from Vault using Chef. As infrastructure increases in complexity, so to does our need to secure it. Watch to learn how you can use Chef and Vault to secure your infrastructure and accelerate application delivery.

An overview of the Chef Server–how it’s designed, how it’s packaged, and general advice on operating it at scale (monitoring, troubleshooting, etc). We’ll talk about each of the Chef server components and how they fit together. Next, we’ll explain the Omnibus system, which lets you build native packages for different platforms. Finally, we’ll show you a few troubleshooting techniques.

Explore how InSpec can improve compliance across your applications and infrastructure.

Learn about Chef’s modular and flexible approach to certification. We explain why we use “badges” and how this allows us to be agile to change within Chef’s product portfolio and evolution of the wider ecosystem.

Chef is built in Ruby – a conscious choice for its great flexibility and developer friendliness. For some people, learning the language can feel difficult because most examples lack your perspective as a Chef practitioner. In this interactive webinar, we invite you to follow along in your favorite editor as we dive through the source code to teach you core Ruby concepts.

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, will show you some approaches to testing complex recipes. He’ll explain mocking and stubbing and then apply those techniques to verify recipes that use search, resource guards, and helper methods.

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, will show you techniques that bring elegance to a cookbook’s tests. You’ll learn how to eliminate redundancy, rebuild common patterns into helpers, and extract those helpers into a portable library.

Part four of a four-part series. Discover how to decrease change failure rates. Join us to learn how to achieve resiliency by optimizing for failure recovery.

Part three of a four-part series. Discover industry metrics that demonstrate you’re shipping faster successfully. We’ll explore why continuous delivery is about more than just having build pipelines.

Part two of a four-part series. Explore the role of automated compliance solutions and discuss which industry metrics demonstrate your successful efforts to mitigate risk.

Part one of a four-part series. Review the overall challenges businesses face in the marketplace and how to gauge where you stand.

Ian Henry and Michael Ducy will show you how Habitat makes building, deploying, and running your applications in containers simple, no matter how complex the production environment. 

Andre Elizondo, Technical Evangelist & Bakh Inamov, Field Solutions Architect discuss the different components of Chef Automate and talk about how it unifies Chef, InSpec, and Habitat into a comprehensive automation strategy for any company in today’s digital world.

Franklin Webber, Training and Technical Content Lead at Chef, explains Ohai’s plugin structure, walks through the core Ohai plugins, and shows you how to build and test a custom plugin. Finally, he talks about some further refinements you can add to the implementation.

Discover how an enterprise shifts to offering effective Developer Services. In this webinar, we will examine the requirements for IT organizations to develop those services and effectively scale them to thousands of development teams.

Hear how and why Texas A&M leverages Chef software to automate their environments, ensuring that servers are configured consistently and able to be validated against the regulatory requirements Universities need to follow.

Chef Automate makes it easy to apply necessary patches and ensure they are vetted against introducing unintended risk to your mission-critical applications. Discover how your teams can spend their time innovating instead of scrambling to patch systems.

Learn how with Chef Automate and DevOps best practices, you can rethink GDPR compliance and take a code driven approach. By introducing Compliance as Code to define security regulations, you turn these into small, modular, executable blocks, that can be put together to define any security policy.

Learn how using the VSTS Chef Extension provides a cookbook pipeline so that on every commit all the cookbook tests are run and optionally Test Kitchen tests. Only when these have passed will the release phase publish the cookbook to the Chef Server. Now each developer is held to the same standards as the versions of the cookbook governed by the build pipeline.

Microsoft Azure Government already enables compliance around your infrastructure. Chef Automate and InSpec are designed to enable you to make your systems themselves compliant. Learn how easy it is to take the existing CIS/STIG controls and translate them into InSpec, enabling teams to operate at velocity by automating their compliance and security posturing into their infrastructure development processes.

Learn about the factors involved in a successful migration to Amazon Web Services, including an overview of the risks and benefits involved. Plus, see how with Chef Automate you can manage your hybrid infrastructure through a single interface, and enforce security and compliance standards across your environments.

Learn how to Detect and Correct issues in your application infrastructure across both cloud and on-premise environments.

Learn how to use Chef Automate with CloudBolt blueprints enabling you to quickly stand up your systems. Watch us provision machines with CloudBolt, apply their configuration with Chef cookbooks, and validate their compliance with InSpec profiles.

In the first of two webinars, we’ll show you how to check your existing cookbooks for compatibility with Chef Client 14. We’ll use tools like Foodcritic to detect and remediate deprecated code in your cookbooks. And we’ll show you some of the improvements coming in Chef Client 14 to help you write better, more reusable cookbooks using a vastly simplified custom resource syntax.

Learn how to efficiently migrate apps to the cloud by enabling DevOps teams to standardize cloud and data center deployments with the same set of tools using the Infrastructure as Code approach.

Learn what’s new in InSpec 2.0. From performance improvements, to a library of new resources, to cloud and pipeline integrations, Dominik Richter and Nick Rycar will take you through what’s new in InSpec so you can kickstart your Continuous Compliance journey today!

Chef 14 and ChefDK 3 is our easiest to use Chef yet. Included in Chef 14 are seven new core resources, four new Ohai plugins, and support for several new platforms, in addition to the usual plethora of bug fixes and performance improvements. Watch this recorded webinar for a deep-dive on all the new features in both Chef 14 and ChefDK 3, with hands-on examples and a demo of the functionality.

Learn how to effectively use Habitat to deliver modern applications to Microsoft Azure. Habitat is a way to build, deploy and manage platform and provider-agnostic software that can run anywhere: any container orchestrator, virtual machines, or even bare metal — without repackaging, and with an identical delivery workflow no matter what the target.

Modern, cloud-native platforms have emerged to enable increased speed and flexibility in application delivery. But getting there has proven difficult for even the most advanced organizations. Will one platform work for all applications? How to manage hybrid complexity? Can legacy applications move at high velocity?