Continuous Automation with Chef

Whether you have five or five thousand servers, Chef lets you manage them all by turning infrastructure into code. Infrastructure described as code is flexible, versionable, human-readable, and testable. Whether your infrastructure is in the cloud, on-premise or in a hybrid environment, you can easily and quickly adapt to your business's changing needs with Chef. Join us for a presentation about and demonstration of Chef's capabilities to help your organization mover faster and more efficiently, while also reducing risk.

This talk was given at the LAUNCH! Annapolis Dev Talks Meetup

Transcript

1. Continuous Automation
   Nathen Harvey
   VP, Community Development
   @nathenharvey
   

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2. Hello!
   Nathen
   Harvey
   VP, Community
   Development
   Chef Software, Inc.
   @nathenharvey .
   

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3. @nathenharvey
   Annapolis Tech Community
   Local resources, meetups, and people
   

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4. @nathenharvey
   http://launchannapolis.org/
   

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5. @nathenharvey
   https://www.meetup.com/launchannapolis/
   

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6. @nathenharvey
   https://www.meetup.com/LAUNCH-Annapolis-Dev-Talks
   

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7. @nathenharvey
   @LaunchAnnapolis
   

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   https://www.meetup.com/Annapolis-Hacking-Infosec-Meetup
   

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   https://www.meetup.com/Annapolis-Code-Coffee/
   

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    Annapolis Suburbs
    Washington, DC & Baltimore
    

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    Meet Online
    • http://www.dctechslack.com/
    • http://baltimoretech-slack.herokuapp.com/
    

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12. @nathenharvey
    https://www.meetup.com/devopsdc/
    

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    https://www.meetup.com/BaltimoreDevOps/
    

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    DevOpsDays
    https://www.devopsdays.org/
    

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    Introductions
    •  Hiring?
    •  Looking for work?
    •  Attending or speaking at a conference?
    •  Something we all should know?
    •  Favorite color?
    

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16. Continuous Automation
    Nathen Harvey
    VP, Community Development
    @nathenharvey
    

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17. @nathenharvey
    Scale
    

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18. @nathenharvey
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    Software success metrics
    SPEED
    Measure of rate
    of software change
    EFFICIENCY
    Measure of effectiveness
    of software change
    RISK
    Measure of quality
    of software change
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    Software success metrics are at odds
    Improving on one metric can negatively impact the others
    SPEED
    EFFICIENCY RISK
    A focus on increasing speed to
    meet business requirements...
    ...can introduce more errors into
    the environment...
    ...and open up security holes
    faster than teams can react.
    

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    UBIQUITOUS
    WORKFLOW
    AUTOMATION
    @nathenharvey
    

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    Code
    @nathenharvey
    

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    The journey to continuous automation
    Three steps to improvement across all dimensions of software success
    Detect
    Correct
    Automate
    1. Detect
    Gain visibility and develop baselines
    2. Correct
    Remediate priority issues
    3. Automate
    Continuously detect & correct
    

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26. @nathenharvey
    55%
    Step one: Detect
    Gain visibility into current status to satisfy audits and drive decision-making
    of organizations do compliance assessments inconsistently or not at all.
    Apply policies and gain a
    complete view across the fleet
    ▪  Accurately assess risk
    ▪  Prioritize remediation actions
    ▪  Maintain audit readiness
    ▪  Create and adjust policies
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    Continuous visibility means that you enter into audits knowing the outcome.
    Jon Williams, NIU
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    Step two: Correct
    Remediate issues to improve performance and security
    ▪  Prioritize actions based on impact
    ▪  Improve application performance
    ▪  Close security holes
    ▪  Prove policy compliance
    Web &
    Media Giant
    Can patch 250,000 nodes within 6 hours of a patch being made available
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    of organizations need days or longer to remediate issues.
    58%
    

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    59%
    Step three: Automate
    Deploy applications faster and manage risk continuously
    ▪  Increase speed while reducing risk
    ▪  Improve software change efficiency
    ▪  Maintain security and compliance
    ▪  Align DevOps and InfoSec
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    compliant with FDA standards before deployment
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    of organizations do not assess for compliance until code is running in production.
    Deploy applications with
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    A single platform to Detect, Correct, and Automate
    Chef Automate enables the entire journey
    Detect
    ▪  Test against industry benchmarks
    ▪  Report and address audit needs
    Correct
    ▪  Close detect/correct loop in one platform
    ▪  Develop baselines for automation
    Automate
    ▪  Detect and correct before production
    ▪  Single language across DevOps, InfoSec
    Chef Automate is a single platform to support the entire journey
    

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    Chef can help you achieve Continuous Automation
    Follow a proven path
    Automate by treating
    as code
    Achieve measurable
    outcomes
    

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35. @nathenharvey
    https://chefconf.chef.io/
    @nathenharvey
    

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36. Thank You!
    Nathen
    Harvey
    VP, Community
    Development
    Chef Software, Inc.
    @nathenharvey .
    

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