Chef Professional Services
Achieve your most ambitious automation and DevSecOps business goals with our experience as a founder and leader in the space.
Maximize Your Investment in Automation Now
With over a million hours of expertise at your fingertips, Chef professional services can accelerate your automation time-to-value by 10x compared to going it alone. We do this by:
- Upskilling your team via training
- Ensuring you are adhering to best practices
- Providing you a design tailored to your scale, situation, and needs up front
- Transferring our seasoned expertise to your team
- Helping re-shape your processes and culture by showing you how to do it
- Building key foundational projects with you and your team
We Work as a Seasoned Extension of Your Team
For almost a decade, Chef Professional Services has gained a tremendous amount of experience in helping its clients drive their infrastructure automation and DevOps journeys to ultimate success. All Chef consulting engineers possess real-world strategic and tactical experience in IT and software development in the financial, health care, software and educational verticals. Best practices, thought leadership, quality, innovation and collaboration — that is Chef Professional Services.
- Source control management (SCM)
- Branching & Code review
- Local dev/test
- Pipelining
- System Administration
- Security & Compliance
- Functional testing
- Integration testing
- Green and Brownfield Provisioning
- Secrets Management
- Versioning & artifact management
- Cloud & Multi-cloud
No Matter Where You Are on Your DevSecOps Journey, We Can Help You
Learning & Planning
Maturity Assessment Service
Chef Services will conduct a detailed assessment of the customer's DevSecOps and Chef capabilities as they relate to operations, delivery, automation, testing, security, monitoring and the organization. Outcome will findings, assessment, maturity index score and clear roadmap to your desired maturity objective.
Length: 1 - 4+ weeks in duration.
Starting
Quick Start Service Bundle
Quickly realize the power of the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack for an on-prem, pre-production pilot or Chef SaaS implementation under 100 nodes. Expected outcome is for the customer to realize a fully-functional, turn-key implementation including software installation, node discovery and receive custom training on cookbooks, recipes, PolicyFiles and best practices for administration and value realization.
Length: 2 weeks in duration.
Doing
Onboarding Service Bundle
You are using Chef in a small production environment (# of servers and/or a subset of Chef). The desire is to expand the usage of the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack for a production environment. Expected outcome is for the customer to realize a fully-functional, turn-key implementation, receive formal training, OS hardening cookbooks & profiles, pipeline reference architecture, Chef best practices, linting framework, Chef Infra & InSpec Reference Architecture, Habitat Essentials, Habitat Packaged Deployments and CIS & DevSec Profiles.
Length: 3 weeks in duration.
Scaling
Foundations Bundle (Automate, Infra, InSpec & Habitat)
You are using Chef in a production environment. The desire is to expand the usage of the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack at production scale (# of systems, pipeline, ITIL). Expected outcome is for the customer to realize all Chef technologies fully implemented, configured and providing continuous business, operational and technical value. Chef integrations with software development pipeline platforms, ITIL and business systems is complete. Receive formal or bespoke training, OS hardening cookbooks & profiles, pipeline reference architecture, Chef best practices, linting framework, Chef Infra & InSpec Reference Architecture, Habitat Essentials, Habitat Packaged Deployments and CIS & DevSec Profiles.
Length: 6 weeks in duration.
Innovating
Factory Bundle (Automate, Infra, InSpec & Habitat)
You are using Chef at-scale in production environment. The desire is to expand the usage of the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack in a fully-committed DevSecOps model. Expected outcome is for the customer to realize all Chef technologies fully implemented, configured and providing continuous business, operational and technical value. Chef integrations with software development pipeline platforms, ITIL, security and business systems is complete. Receive intermediate and/or bespoke training, OS hardening cookbooks & profiles, pipeline reference architecture, Chef best practices, linting framework, Chef Infra & InSpec Reference Architecture, Habitat Essentials, Habitat Packaged Deployments and CIS & DevSec Profiles.
Length: 12 weeks in duration.
Scaling & Innovating
Chef Managed Service
We understand what it takes to keep your Chef implementation running at peak performance. Modifying Cookbooks and PolicyFiles, updating reporting and keeping up to date with the latest Chef versions can make a big impact. The Chef Managed Services program is designed to enable Chef users and business owners to spend less time and money administrating Chef and more time achieving business, operational and technical business objectives.
Chef Managed Services will measurably reduce your cost of ownership while increasing your expected business value of Chef.
- Managed Upgrades to latest software versions
- Cookbook updates
- Recipe Updates
- PolicyFile Updates
- Pipeline changes
- PolicyGroup Updates
- Custom Monitoring
- Change Management
- Maintenance Windows
- Disaster Recovery & High Availability Management
- Capacity Management
- Monthly Status Report
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