Chef Courier - Enterprise Job Orchestration (BETA)
Controlled Rollout of Changes – Whatever, Wherever, Whenever
Orchestration That Brings Workflows Together
Multiple tools and workflows make it difficult for administrators to maintain and manage IT devices in large and complex environments. To handle such scenarios, orchestration is required. Orchestration brings people and tools and workflows together and streamlines IT processes. With Progress® Chef® Courier™, administrators have flexible and granular control over numerous fleet actions, including targeting and timing dimensions. From routine tasks to critical incident response actions, Chef makes processes fast and efficient with its robust orchestration capabilities.
Job Orchestration with Chef - Key Benefits
Control Over All Dimensions of Change Rollout
Target specific nodes for specific changes – ad hoc or scheduled targeting based on pre-defined conditions.
Easy Upgrades and Maintenance of Your Fleet
Use cookbooks, policies, shell scripts or JSON as jobs. Upgrade applications across nodes with ease and rollout changes with flexibility.
Reactive Work Made Easy
Apply patches and security fixes or rollback changes as and when needed. Create incident response cookbooks and orchestrate remediation.
Turn Your Team Members Into Experts
The orchestration capability of Chef empowers every member of the team to run self-service automation. This reduces the dependability on individual experts especially during threat incidents or business downtimes. Different stakeholders can set up, trigger, stop, restart and run numerous actions across nodes in the fleet based on requirements. Responsibilities are shared and no individuals or teams are burdened with routine or critical remediation tasks.
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Job Orchestration with Chef - Use Cases
Incident Response
Security and Compliance
Patching
Application Deployment
Service Request
Other Workflows/Tools
Perform Any Action - Whatever
The Whatever dimension allows users to control the kind of job they want to perform.
- Scripts
- OS Commands
- Cookbooks
- Policyfiles
- Compliance Profiles
- Application Packages
Target Any Node(s) - Wherever
The Wherever dimension allows users to target the nodes they want to run jobs on.
- Node ID
- Query
- Shared Query
- Saved Lists
- Other Custom Parameters
The distribution pattern can also be customized.
- Sequential
- Parallel
- Batched
Run Any Time - Whenever
The Whenever dimension allows users to control the timing of the actions to be performed.
- On-demand
- Scheduled
- Reoccurring
- Exceptions
What’s In This Beta?
The Beta has a lot of interesting features to get you started with orchestration. Sign up today to get access to:
- An orchestration package that is based on the pre-release builds
- Installation in your own test environments to validate actions against your own nodes
- Sample jobs you can use to identify different areas within your systems where you can use orchestration
We work very closely with all Beta users to ensure they are able to successfully validate the use case(s) they want to try orchestration for. Sign up today!
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