OREANDA-NEWS. Chef, the leader in automation for DevOps, today announced at the European Chef Community Summit new products that automate change management for the entire application and infrastructure stack. Chef's workflow automation product Chef Delivery, initially made available as an invitation-only program in April, is now generally available and integrates with the new Chef Compliance offering. Together, they automate infrastructure, runtime environments, applications and compliance policies. These new products provide a proven process for managing complex, end-to-end changes and enable enterprises to deliver value through software faster and with maximum safety.

Chef's new compliance capabilities enable users to automate the assessment and remediation of IT infrastructure. Chef Compliance is built on technology from VulcanoSec, a security software company based in Germany, which Chef recently acquired. Chef is integrating Chef Compliance with Chef Delivery to bring compliance into the DevOps workflow.

"As organizations in all industries rapidly evolve their business models around technology, they are struggling to develop software at velocity, while also meeting complex compliance and security obligations," said Barry Crist, CEO of Chef. "Chef Delivery and our new compliance capabilities provide a demonstrated DevOps workflow for enterprises that want both speed and security."

"DevOps is how we do things at Ooyala. We're building out Chef Delivery to be the foundation for our workflow, so our engineering team has a single pipeline to drive our development," commented Caedman Oakley, DevOps evangelist, Ooyala. "A great example of how we'll use Delivery is as the pipeline for building, testing, and deploying our open source Docker management framework, Atlantis, enabling the team to best collaborate on a core piece of our production environment." 

"We share a fierce belief that open technologies propel our clients forward. The proven DevOps pipeline and infrastructure automation features of Chef Delivery are allowing us to do just that," said Nirmal Mehta, Senior Lead Technologist, Strategic Innovation Group, Booz Allen Hamilton.

The current compliance landscape includes increasingly detailed requirements. For organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as healthcare, financial services and government, detailed compliance impedes the ability to innovate. However, by specifying compliance requirements as code, verification tasks that were previously manual and reactive can be embedded as tests in an automated workflow. Together, Chef Delivery and Chef Compliance automate the analysis, specification, testing, and certification of infrastructure and enable enterprises to more easily apply regulatory requirements at any scale.