Chef Shifts to Policy as Code, Debuts SaaS Offering>
The New Stack.io – Mike Melanson
At this yearâs ChefConf 2021, Progress, the company that acquired Chef late last year, announced several new additions to the platform once known for its infrastructure-as-code (IAC) capabilities. The new features fall into three primary categories â multicloud compliance, increased productivity, and deployment flexibility â and showcase a continued transformation for Chef.

Prashanth Nanjundappa, a senior director of software engineering and product management at Progress, explained that the move to policy as code (PaC) helps to encompass more aspects of a business than simply infrastructure as code, which is still part of Chefâs platform.

Nanjundappa explained that, while this is a shift for Chef, it is one that still centers on its core competency: code.

As for ease of use, Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) will also be available in both AWS and Azure marketplaces. The company has begun a Chef Managed Services program, and Chef EAS is also now available in a beta SaaS offering. All of these together, said Nanjundappa, will make Chef EAS âeasy to access and adopt, which will help reduce overall time to value.â

More specifically, upcoming Kubernetes features will offer visibility into containers and the Kubernetes environment, scanning for common misconfigurations, vulnerability management, and runtime security.
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