Sold by: Progress Software Corporation
Deployed on AWS
Progress Chef accelerates your DevSecOps journey, modernizes the continuous delivery of secure applications and infrastructure, and enables you to define Policy as Code to confidently manage your entire fleet.
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Overview
Accelerate your DevSecOps journey with Chef and AWS, and take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, testability, security, reliability, and observability that they bring together.
The Progress® Chef® portfolio includes solutions for infrastructure management, application delivery (including edge devices), support for cloud-to-edge security and continuous compliance solutions, accessible through a unified interface for thorough fleet-wide visibility and control.
Infrastructure Management
Chef uses a policy-as-code approach to streamline configuration management in any environment, on-premises, cloud, or hybrid, regardless of underlying infrastructure or OS.
Security and Compliance Automation
Chef helps organizations streamline the maintenance of compliant IT infrastructure, whether on-premises or in the cloud. It leverages certified, curated audit and remediation content catering to standard benchmarks such as CIS, DISA-STIGs and internal regulations across diverse IT fleets, including Cloud and Kubernetes Security Posture Management.
Conveniently bring your current Chef license to your AWS subscriptions with all the benefits in an easy-to-deploy model.
Highlights
- Configuration Management for All Platforms and Operating Systems
- Continuous Compliance Audits and Automated Remediation
- Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Details
Delivery method
Delivery option
Chef_Automate_BYOL
Latest version
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04
Deployed on AWS
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Delivery details
Chef_Automate_BYOL
Chef Automate BYOL uses cloudformation to deploy the license you provide.
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
Version release notes
Automate Version 4.13
Additional details
Usage instructions
About 10 minutes after launching the Chef Automate AMI, you can access the application via a browser at https://<public_dns-name>/. Credential are provided from the instance dashboard, or you can shell into the instance to get your unique login credentials in ~/automate-credentials.toml. For hands-on learning, please visit https://learn.chef.io/
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Support
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Accelerate your DevSecOps journey with Chef and AWS and take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, testability, security, reliability, and observability that they bring together.
Customer reviews
Bongisiwe S.
Streamlined DevOps with Quick Deployment and Security
Reviewed on Jul 11, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Progress Chef simplifies a DevOps engineer's work by deploying VMs seamlessly and quickly, which helps application teams not worry about deployments. It saves a lot of time since deployment can be done with API calls and agents installed, and you just need to run the pipeline. The process is also secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
We need more features that include AI as the world and business is moving to AIOps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to deploy and maintain infrastructure quicker and easier. It simplifies a DevOps engineer's work by making deployments seamless and secure. It saves time by allowing deployment with API calls and pipelines.
Information Technology and Services
Streamlines Task Management with Ease
Reviewed on Jul 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I use Progress Chef to manage and streamline workflows, and I really like the task tracking and the dashboard view. It makes it easy to see progress at a glance and quickly check what's done or still pending. These features help me stay organized and focused by allowing me to see what needs attention and track progress efficiently, saving me time. Additionally, the initial setup of Progress Chef was quite straightforward, and it didn't take long to get familiar with the platform and start using it effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
It works well overall but when there are many tasks, it can take a bit more time to go through everything. A slightly quicker way to filter or find specific items would make it even better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to streamline workflows, track tasks, and ensure projects stay on schedule. It keeps me organized, prevents missing tasks, and saves time with a dashboard view to quickly check progress.
Anonymous
Powerful Automation with a Steep Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Progress Chef's ability to automate infrastructure management while ensuring consistency across all servers. Instead of configuring systems manually, I define the desired state in code, and Chef applies it automatically, reducing downtime and improving consistency. Once it's properly implemented, it becomes a powerful and reliable tool for automating infrastructure at scale. After migrating from Puppet, we have found Chef to offer a more flexible and maintainable automation platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
One area where Progress Chef could be improved is its learning curve, it takes more time to understand concepts. Debugging issues are challenging, setting up and managing Chef servers are complex for smaller environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to manage servers, reducing downtime and improving consistency. It automates infrastructure management, allowing me to define desired states in code while ensuring consistency across servers.
Anonymous
User-Friendly UI with Detailed Error Tracking
Reviewed on Jul 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I find the UI of Progress Chef to be user-friendly, which really helps in displaying all the servers it supports. It shows the errors in detail for servers that are failing, and you can track back to when the failure started, which is incredibly useful. Every morning, I conduct check-ins to see which servers need attention or have been decommissioned, and this tool assists in alerting the VM owners effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
None so far as we only use it for observability nothing much
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef for observability, checking health status, identifying server issues, and alerting VM owners about failures. Its user-friendly UI shows supported servers and detailed errors, helping me track problems back to their start.
Nomzamo X.
Efficient Automation Tool with a Learning Curve
Reviewed on Jul 06, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Progress Chef's ability to automate infrastructure management and maintain consistent server configuration across environments. It reduces manual work, it's reliable, and saves time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning can be a challenge. Improved documentation would make it easier. I think a more step-by-step guide for beginners and clear troubleshooting documentation for common errors would help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Progress Chef to automate and configure servers, eliminating manual setup errors and maintaining consistent configurations. It's reliable, reduces manual work, and saves time.