Slides from the overview and demo of Chef Automate from Canberra Infracoders. https://www.meetup.com/Infrastructure-Coders-Canberra/events/241775704/

1. Chef Automate
InfraCoders Canberra Meetup
August 8, 2017

2. Matt Ray
Manager, Solutions Architect – APJ
Chef Software
matt@chef.io
@mattray

3. Chef
▪ Manages deployment
and on-going automation
▪ Define reusable resources
and infrastructure state as code
▪ Scale elegantly from one to tens of
thousands of managed nodes across
multiple complex environments
▪ Community, Certified Partner, and
Chef supported content available
for all common automation tasks
Infrastructure automation
and delivery at scale
windows_feature ‘IIS-WebServerRole’ do
action :install
end
windows_feature ‘IIS-ASPNET’ do
action :install
end
iis_pool FooBarPool do
runtime_version “4.0”
action :add
end
package "apache" do
action :install
end
template “/etc/httpd/https.conf” do
source “httpd.conf.erb”
mode 0075
owner “root”
group “root”
end
service “apache2” do
action :start
done

4. PART OF A PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
Scan for
Compliance
Build & Test
Locally
Build & Test
CI/CD Remediate Verify
A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF AN INSPEC WINDOWS RULE
InSpec
▪ Translate compliance into Code
▪ Clearly express statements of policy
▪ Move risk to build/test from runtime
▪ Find issues early
▪ Write code quickly
▪ Run code anywhere
▪ Inspect machines, data, APIs and cloud
platforms
Turn security and
compliance into code
control ‘cis-1.4.1’ do
title ‘1.4.1 Enable SELinux in /etc/grub.conf’
desc ‘
Do not disable SELinux and enforcing in your
GRUB configuration. These are important security features that
prevent attackers from escalating their access to your systems.
For reference see …
‘
impact 1.0
expect(grub_conf.param ‘selinux’).to_not eq ‘0’
expect(grub_conf.param ‘enforcing’).to_not eq ‘0’
end
control 'windows-base-201' do
impact 1.0
title 'Strong Windows NTLMv2 Authentication Enabled; Weak LM
Disabled'
desc '@link: http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/823659'
describe registry_key
('HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlLsa') do
it { should exist }
its('LmCompatibilityLevel') { should eq 4 }
end
end

5. Habitat
▪ Ease the burden of managing microservice
apps and bring benefits of apps architected
for microservices to traditional applications
▪ Gain consistent management of new
and traditional applications across their lifecycle
▪ Provides application portability for new and traditional
apps
▪ Autonomous nodes self-manage runtime state
of application based upon policy you define
▪ APIs expose application behaviors
as data for better management
▪ Works in tandem with infrastructure automation
▪ Makes applications running on containers,
PaaS, virtual machines, bare metal, … better
Automation that travels with the app

6. The Chef Automate Platform
Continuous Automation for High Velocity IT
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)
COLLABORATE
▪ Package
▪ Test
▪ Approve
BUILD
▪ Provision
▪ Configure
▪ Execute
▪ Update
DEPLOY
▪ Secure
▪ Comply
▪ Audit
▪ Measure
▪ Log
MANAGE
Infrastructure Automation Compliance AutomationApplication Automation
OSS AUTOMATION ENGINES
Increase Speed
▪ Package infrastructure and app
configuration as code
▪ Continuously automate
infrastructure and app updates
Improve Efficiency
▪ Define and execute standard
workflows and automation
▪ Audit and measure effectiveness of
automation
Decrease Risk
▪ Define compliance rules as code
▪ Deliver continuous compliance as
part of standard workflow

7. AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate
Native Amazon Service
Managed Chef Server
▪ Utilizes RDS and other native
services
▪ May be externally accessible
AWS Native
▪ Auto Scaling in your VPC
▪ Automatic backups and upgrades
OpsWorks Stacks
▪ New name for previous version of
OpsWorks
● Partnership between Amazon and Chef, jointly
developed and maintained
● Fully managed AWS service with frequent updates
● Fully compatible with open source Chef
● Amazon is your support and billing
● All Chef Automate features will be supported
○ Visibility and Workflow today
○ Compliance soon
○ Currently Northern Virginia, Oregon & Ireland
with more planned

8. Continuous Workflow
Detect
Correct

9. Scan for
Compliance
Build & Test
Locally
Build & Test
CI/CD Remediate Verify

10. DEMO TIME!

11. Chef Automate is at the heart of software delivery
The vendors you trust, trust Chef for continuous automation
Technology Partners:
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)
COLLABORATE
▪ Package
▪ Test
BUILD
▪ Secure
▪ Comply
MANAGE
Infrastructure
Automation
Compliance
Automation
Application
Automation
OSS AUTOMATION ENGINES
▪ Provision
▪ Configure
DEPLOY
FORMAT RUNTIME
WORKFLOW
ENVIRONMENT

12. One path for change
VERIFY BUILD ACCEPTANCE REHEARSAL DELIVEREDUNIONAPPROVE DELIVER
Lint
Syntax
Unit
Security
Quality
Publish
Lint
Syntax
Unit
Provision
Deploy
Smoke
Functional
Provision
Deploy
Smoke
Functional
Provision
Deploy
Smoke
Functional
Provision
Deploy
Smoke
Functional
Submit
Change
Does this
code change
look good?
Do we want
to ship this?

13. Dig into the new way of learning about
Chef, Automation, and DevOps.
Self-paced training on Linux and Windows and much more!
learn.chef.io