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Manage Infrastructure as Code with Chef

Chef in a Nutshell

 

The Chef software family allows users to configure their IT systems and monitor them constantly.

In classical environments, configuration is done manually or with long shell scripts – making it non-reproducible or only applicable once. When using Chef, you state your desired state and your expectations of the configured system in an OS-independent way.

This configuration is portable across platforms and violations of your expectations will be automatically detected, reported and corrected.

Solutions

Compliance Automation

Chef InSpec – Verify your IT systems‘ compliance and security posture, using CIS-certified benchmarks.

Infrastructure Automation

Chef Infra Client – Discover the „Test & Repair Principle“: Keep your infrastructure current and revert all manual changes within seconds.

Application Automation

Chef Habitat – Roll out software across different systems, platforms and runtime engines like Kubernetes or Docker.

Automated Insights

Chef Automate – Implement a company-wide dashboard for managed servers, desktop clients, applications and their compliance status.

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Our Offerings

DevOps Transformation

„DevOps“ is not a buzz word but a radical change of mentality and tools, which requires a long-term effort.

One of its main ideas is to spend more time on tasks that add value than on repetition or hand-overs between departments.

Starting with DevOps is not a sprint, but a marathon involving training, communication, exercise and mutual understanding.

As part of our Chef consulting, we guide you through all these related changes which are crucial to introducing tools like Chef – because DevOps is more about interactions than tools.

Professional Services + Development

If you just set up a web server in the cloud, things tend to be straightforward. But most projects, especially in an enterprise context, are mainly one thing: really complex.

Our consultants have been working with Chef for years and know when to deviate from the usual patterns. Starting with hands-on training and guiding you along the full implementation cycle, we can help you avoid the obstacles you would run into if you were purely self-studying. Our goal is to enable you and your employees to be self-sustaining within the Chef ecosystem, while offering you specialized consulting later on.

As every big project has its special requirements, we also develop technology just for you: Custom resources for Chef and InSpec, helper libraries and inventory plugins – even specialized drivers to enable you to test on your own infrastructure.

We love open source and publish our contributions to the ecosystem whenever possible.

Licensing

Software licenses are complex and confusing. We offer to be your partner in this area, by checking your actual requirements and finding the best solution together with the vendor themselves.

tecRacer has been selling Chef licenses for years, from small customers to international enterprises. Contact us and talk to people who actually know the software that you want to buy – not somebody who just offers everything.

Training

As every journey should start with thorough preparation, we are offering you the official Chef curriculum. And as reality rarely follows your textbooks, we are adding our practical project knowledge on top.

While there are many books and video courses on Chef, much of it is either dated or created out of pure theory. Instead of buying this book from 2013, you should get some first-hand knowledge of how things evolved over time.

tecRacer as CHEF Principal Partner

tecRacer has been awarded Principal Partner status in 2020, the highest partner level of Chef.

With this status, Progress Chef only distinguishes those partners who have the highest level of expertise, have a major influence on the market and can master both small and large customer projects with confidence.

Parallel to this, the cooperation at conferences and user groups has continued to grow: tecRacer has created the Chef Usergroup Germany. The Usergroup will not only invite speakers from tecRacer and other companies, but also Chef employees from different countries have expressed interest in reporting on news and their experiences.

Chef and tecRacer complement each other since 2017 in the area of Progress Chef Professional Services, Consulting, Reselling and Training. The segment for the DACH area has been experiencing continuous growth for years.

Blog

  • Demystifying FinOps in Cloud Computing: A Paradigm Shift Towards Effective Financial Management
    am 26. Mai 2023

    In an era where cloud computing is revolutionizing businesses, the rise of a new discipline called FinOps is commanding attention. Financial Operations, or FinOps, brings a financial lens to the operational aspects of cloud computing, enabling organizations to drive cost efficiency, business value, and growth. But what exactly is FinOps and how can businesses leverage it in the realm of cloud computing? Understanding FinOps FinOps is a cultural shift, a practice that combines systems, best practices, and organizational culture to bring financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud computing.

  • Implementing SAML federation for Amazon OpenSearch Service with OneLogin.
    am 24. Mai 2023

    Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully-managed solution for interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, observability, and more. With a vast customer base, Amazon OpenSearch Service manages hundreds of thousands of clusters and processes trillions of requests monthly. The service provides seamless access for users through SAML-based federation for OpenSearch Dashboards, enabling single sign-on (SSO) on Amazon OpenSearch Service domains using existing identity providers (IdPs) like OneLogin. SAML simplifies the login process by allowing users to access multiple platforms with a single username and password, providing a safer and more convenient online experience. This guide will walk you through integrating OneLogin with OpenSearch Dashboards for a seamless SSO experience, leveraging Amazon OpenSearch Service’s capabilities.

  • Cross Account Kafka Streaming Part 2: Use Amazon MSK and Terraform to build a real-time data analytics pipeline.
    am 10. Mai 2023

    When discussing high performant real-time event streaming, Apache Kafka is a tool that immediately comes to mind. Optimized for ingesting and transforming real-time streaming data in a reliable and scalable manner, a great number of companies today rely on Apache Kafka to power their mission-critical applications and data analytics pipelines. In this blog series, I would like to show you how you can leverage Amazon MSK and Terraform to set up a fully managed, cross-account Apache Kafka streaming pipeline on AWS. In the first part, we already set up the MSK Kafka cluster and producers. The second part will show you how you can set up distributed Kafka clients in different AWS accounts and communicate with the MSK cluster via AWS VPC Endpoints.

  • Cross Account Kafka Streaming Part 1: Use Amazon MSK and Terraform to build a real-time data analytics pipeline.
    am 10. Mai 2023

    When discussing high performant real-time event streaming, Apache Kafka is a tool that immediately comes to mind. Optimized for ingesting and transforming real-time streaming data in a reliable and scalable manner, a great number of companies today rely on Apache Kafka to power their mission-critical applications and data analytics pipelines. In this blog series, I would like to show you how you can leverage Amazon MSK and Terraform to set up a fully managed, cross-account Apache Kafka streaming pipeline on AWS. In this first part, we will set up the MSK Kafka cluster and producers. The second part will show you how you can set up distributed Kafka clients in different AWS accounts and communicate with the MSK cluster via AWS VPC Endpoints.

  • Serverless Jenkins on ECS Part 3: Use AWS Fargate and Terraform to build a containerized, Controller/Agent-based Jenkins deployment pipeline
    am 8. Mai 2023

    When setting up a Jenkins build server on a physical machine, right-sizing can become a challenging task. Long idle times followed by high, irregular loads make it hard to predict the necessary hardware requirements. One solution to this problem is the deployment of a containerized Controller/Agent-based Jenkins setup and to offload workloads to dedicated, transient agents. This is the third post of a three-post series. In this series, I would like to show you how you can leverage AWS Fargate and Terraform to deploy a serverless as well as fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable Jenkins Controller/Agent deployment pipeline.

  • Serverless Jenkins on ECS Part 2: Use AWS Fargate and Terraform to build a containerized, Controller/Agent-based Jenkins deployment pipeline
    am 8. Mai 2023

    When setting up a Jenkins build server on a physical machine, right-sizing can become a challenging task. Long idle times followed by high, irregular loads make it hard to predict the necessary hardware requirements. One solution to this problem is the deployment of a containerized Controller/Agent-based Jenkins setup and to offload workloads to dedicated, transient agents. This is the second post of a three-post series. In this series, I would like to show you how you can leverage AWS Fargate and Terraform to deploy a serverless as well as fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable Jenkins Controller/Agent deployment pipeline.

  • Serverless Jenkins on ECS Part 1: Use AWS Fargate and Terraform to build a containerized, Controller/Agent-based Jenkins deployment pipeline
    am 8. Mai 2023

    When setting up a Jenkins build server on a physical machine, right-sizing can become a challenging task. Long idle times followed by high, irregular loads make it hard to predict the necessary hardware requirements. One solution to this problem is the deployment of a containerized Controller/Agent-based Jenkins setup and to offload workloads to dedicated, transient agents. This is the first post of a three-post series. In this series, I would like to show you how you can leverage AWS Fargate and Terraform to deploy a serverless as well as fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable Jenkins Controller/Agent deployment pipeline.

  • Hello Slurm! - Getting started with High Performance Computing on AWS
    am 5. Mai 2023

    High Performance Computing or HPC is coming up when thinking about analyzing models or while working at universities and other research and development organizations. In this article I will show you how to setup HPC, giving you some background information how it works in AWS and to run a small script in your own Cluster.

  • Using AI to generate Terraform Code from actual AWS resources
    am 26. April 2023

    The world is changing, with new AI tools emerging every day. One such tool that has been making waves recently is ChatGPT. It is only the first of many such tools hitting the market, and it urges us to think about the future of our work. I recently used it to help with a standard task that I often perform and was amazed by how well it helped me to automate it.

  • Streamline Security Group Maintenance in Terraform with Markdown Tables
    am 21. April 2023

    Managing security groups and their rules in AWS infrastructure can become cumbersome and error-prone as your environment grows. In this blog post, I introduce a Terraform solution that simplifies this process by using a Markdown table to define security group rules.

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Phone: +49 511 – 59 0 95-950
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E-mail: chef-sales@tecracer.de