I have found the Chef Automate tool especially useful owing to its infrastructure as code or IaC model. By defining configurations as code we achieved the same level of environment consistency in our deploys while significantly reducing errors.
January 15, 2025
Chef cookbooks are the building blocks for configuration management and can become complex and hard to manage, especially so in large environments. Fixing entangled dependencies between cookbooks is a real pain and can take hours if not days.
January 8, 2025