Chef

Chef is one of the prominent configuration management and infrastructure automation platforms; it provides a full suite of enterprise capabilities such as workflow, visibility, and compliance. It enables continuous deployments for both infrastructure and applications from development to production. Infrastructure configuration automation as code is written, tested, deployed, and managed by Chef across networks such as the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments with comprehensive 24 x 7 support services. Examples are client systems, security patches can be updated from master server by writing configurations as a set of instructions and executed on multiple nodes simultaneously.

The Chef platform as shown in the following figure, supports multiple environments such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Google Cloud, and so on. Platforms such as Windows, Linux, VMware, and so on, are available. All the popular continuous integration tools such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitHub...