The Journey to Continuous Automation

Chef is the leader in Continuous Automation software, and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Nathen Harvey, VP of Community at Chef, will present and demonstrate Chef's capabilities for enabling collaboration and continuous automation across your infrastructure, applications, and compliance for all your apps and infrastructure. Manage everything as code, follow a proven path, and achieve measurable outcomes with Chef.

This was presented at the Nashville DevOps Meetup. https://www.meetup.com/NashDevOps/events/241250541/

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1. The Journey to
   Continuous Automation
   Outperform with Chef Automate
   Nathen Harvey
   VP, Community Development
   @nathenharvey
   

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

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3. INFRA
   OPS
   SECURITY
   NETWORK
   CLOUD
   DEV
   BUSINESS
   CUSTOMER
   OUTCOME
   @nathenharvey
   

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4. Scale
   

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5. @nathenharvey
   

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6. @nathenharvey
   

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7. Code
   @nathenharvey
   

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8. Software success metrics
   SPEED
   Measure of rate
   of software change
   EFFICIENCY
   Measure of effectiveness
   of software change
   RISK
   Measure of quality
   of software change
   @nathenharvey
   

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9. 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.
   @nathenharvey
   

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10. technology
    culture
    @nathenharvey
    

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11. @nathenharvey
    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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12. 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
    ”
    Continuous visibility means that you enter into audits knowing the outcome.
    Jon Williams, NIU
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13. ✓ ✓ ✓
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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
    Develop, test, and deploy remediation to
    address issues across the fleet
    ✓ ✓ ✓
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    of organizations need days or longer to remediate issues.
    58%
    

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14. 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
    Every resource and app in HPC environment automatically qualified as
    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
    confidence
    

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

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16. Yeah, but…
    DevOps
    @nathenharvey
    

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17. Yeah, but…
    DevOps is not my job.
    DevOps
    @nathenharvey
    

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18. @nathenharvey
    

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19. A cultural and
    professional movement
    focused on how to build
    and operate high-velocity
    organizations, born from
    the experiences of its
    practitioners.
    DevOps
    @nathenharvey
    

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20. @nathenharvey
    

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

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22. Next steps
    Start your journey to continuous automation today
    Chef has helped over a thousand customers on the journey to Continuous Automation
    Chef Automate Demo
    Understand the Chef Automate technology in context of your needs
    Prioritize Detect & Correct Use Cases
    Act on insights and remediate before problems are deployed
    Try Chef Automate Pilot
    An easy way to get hands-on with the product
    https://learn.chef.io/modules/chef-automate-pilot#/
    

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

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