OpsWorks for Chef Automate

• Create AWS-managed Chef servers that include Chef Automate premium features
• Use the Chef DK and other Chef tooling to manage them
• Manages both Chef Automate Server and Chef Server software on a single instance.
• Run a Chef Automate server in AWS.
• provision a Chef server within minutes
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate can
  • handle its operations
  • backups
  • restorations
  • software upgrade
• A Chef Automate server manages mode configuration by
  • instructing chef-client which Chef recipes to run on nodes
  • stores information about nodes
  • is a central repository for Chef cookbooks.
• It provides premium features of Chef Infra and Chef InSpec.
• OpsWorks for Chef Automate server runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance.
• 13.x is minimum supported version of chef-client on nodes associated with AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server

Components

• Chef Automate –
  • server software to automate workflow for continuous deployment,
  • gives insights about managed nodes in a web-based management console.
  • delivers infrastructure automation by Chef Infra
  • security and compliance information and enforcement by Chef InSpec
  • automated deployment by including Chef Habitat.
• Chef Infra –
  • Formerly called Chef Server
  • uses the Chef Infra Client (chef-client) agent to continuously apply configurations to managed nodes to maintain a desired state.
• Chef InSpec  –
  • describes security and compliance rules
  • Rules can be shared between operations and security engineers.
  • Runs automated tests by chef-client agent against managed nodes, ensuring consistent enforcement of standards.