Progress Chef
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Progress Chef (formerly Chef) is a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. It uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". Chef is used to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, OpenStack, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace to automatically provision and configure new machines. Chef contains solutions for both small and large scale systems.
Progress Chef (formerly Chef) is a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. It uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". Chef is used to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, OpenStack, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace to automatically provision and configure new machines. Chef contains solutions for both small and large scale systems. ===Opscode=== Chef was founded by Nathen Haneysmith, Adam Jacob and Barry Crist, and based in Seattle, United States. It operates as an Infrastructure automation platform for applications until today. In February 2013, Opscode released version 11 of Chef. Changes in this release included a complete rewrite of the core API server in Erlang. In Sep 2015, Chef Chef was valued at $360 million after a $40 million venture capital funding round. In November 2015, the company acquired a German security startup, VulcanoSec. In April 2019, the company announced that the source code for their software would continue to be released under the Apache 2.0 license, while binaries would only be available under the terms of a proprietary license. In response, the Cinc project began releasing Apache 2.0 licensed binaries of several Chef products. In 2019, it was discovered by a journalist that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was paying Chef approximately $95,000 per year for a software license. At that time, a former Chef employee deleted his code repository in protest of the contract. The company did not announce any changes to its contracting processes or partners. ===Chef Automate=== Chef offered a single commercial product, Chef Automate, released at ChefConf in July 20161. Chef Automate included a full-stack continuous deployment pipeline, and automated testing for compliance and security. Chef Automate built on two of Chef's open source projects - Chef and InSpec - and integrated with the company's third open source project, Habitat. Habitat offered "application automation" to simplify running complex applications in different environments including containers, traditional data servers, or PaaS. Chef offered three versions of its product: Chef Basics (free, open source), Hosted Chef ($72/node, minimum 20 node purchase), and Chef Automate ($137/node, annual subscription). ===Progress=== On September 8, 2020, Progress announced the acquisition of Chef, with an intended final date in October. A press release gave the price of acquisition at $220 million. The merged company was named Progress Chef. ==See also== Comparison of open-source configuration management software Infrastructure as code (IaC) Infrastructure as Code Tools Ansible (software) CFEngine (software) DevOps DevOps toolchain Puppet (software) Salt (software) Juju (software) ==References== ==Further reading== ==External links==
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