Why Chef

Organizations today rely on IT infrastructure and applications to run nearly every aspect of their business.

From large-scale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) deployments down to the individual mobile applications users download onto their devices, software creates tremendous value. At the same time, the need for software to adapt quickly to changing demands creates new vectors of security and compliance risk.

In a rapidly changing environment, organizations that move quickly while maintaining security and compliance are best placed to realize the promises of technology. However, this requires traditionally siloed IT teams, such as application developers, infrastructure operators and information security professionals, to work together through shared culture and practices commonly called DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations).

DevSecOps tools bring security into the DevOps culture more fully and intentionally. Despite the best of intentions, security teams use their own tools and languages that have kept them siloed from development and operations teams. This leads to inefficient layers of custom work and duplication that is error prone and results in wasted resources and delays.

Chef helps facilitate a culture of DevSecOps through collaboration enabled by automation. The premise is simple, if an organization's policies and intentions are defined, they can be written in human-readable code and automated, creating two distinct advantages.

First, automation removes error-prone manual processes. By embedding security and compliance checks throughout the delivery lifecycle, software changes are not blocked and slowed down by onerous security gates.

More importantly, with bandwidth freed up from avoiding custom work, teams are able to collaborate on strategic issues rather than 'firefighting' in a rush to get products shipped for a deadline.

We call organizations that achieve this level of high performance Coded Enterprises.