"Our most critical job is to button down the security requirements. For every piece of technology that we have, the security people give us a manual on how to harden it: how to harden Apache, how to harden WebSphere. Before Chef, we did everything manually. There might be some scripts but they weren’t consistent across the organization.”
“Obviously, it’s great to be able to automate things that take up a lot of time, and Chef enables us to focus on other skill sets and to work on other important areas where we need to devote our attention. Also, it’s a new, great technology for us. We’re jumping all over it. I’ve basically integrated all my projects into it already and I’m already finding great benefits. It’s the future. If your eyes are open to that, you should pick it up.”
Ansible, an open source community project sponsored by Red Hat, is the simplest way to automate IT. Ansible by Red Hat provides enterprise ready solutions to automate your entire application lifecycle from servers to clouds to containers and everything in between. Ansible Tower by Red Hat is a commercial offering that helps teams manage complex multi-tier deployments by adding control, knowledge, and delegation to Ansible powered environments.
Puppet is driving the movement to a world of unconstrained software change. Its revolutionary platform is the industry standard for automating the delivery and operation of the software that powers everything around us. More than 37,000 companies—including more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100—use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to adopt DevOps practices, achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Puppet is a privately held company with more than 500 employees around the world.
CFEngine a pioneer in IT Automation at Web-scale, enables organizations to become more agile and thrive in the Cloud Era by radically simplifying, automating and transforming the way they build, deliver and consume IT infrastructure and applications. With CFEngine, some of the largest IT organizations provision resources and deploy new applications orders of magnitude faster, while ensuring continuous availability, security and compliance in large-scale, very dynamic and highly complex environments.