Chef, at its online ChefConf 2020 event today, launched Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop as well as additional enhancements to the tools it provides for application deployment automation. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Desktop enables IT teams to write their own configuration and compliance requirements as human-readable code using YAML […]
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
Chef today updated its tool for automating the management of IT infrastructure as part of an effort to further eliminate the need to rely on manual processes that generally fail to scale. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Infra 16 adds a Unified Mode that provides a more streamlined means of […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools
Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]
VMware Makes vRealize Automation Framework Available via the Cloud
VMware this week announced it has made a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its vRealize automation platform generally available. Taruna Gandhi, senior director for product and technical marketing at VMware, said VMware vRealize Operation Cloud will make IT automation more accessible to a broader swath of organizations that might not be able to implement IT automation […]
IT Automation Tools Are No Longer Enough
As Chris Gardner—who conducted the Forrester Wave on Infrastructure Automation Platforms—stated, “Infrastructure automation isn’t just on-premises or in the cloud. It’s at the edge and everywhere in between.” And that’s because, well, it needs to be. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone reading this that IT automation is a must-have for organizations today. […]
SaltStack Updates Enterprise IT Automation Framework
SaltStack has partnered with Tenable.io to make it possible to pull vulnerability data into the enterprise edition of its namesake IT automation framework. In addition, version 6.2 of SaltStack Enterprise now integrates with the IT operations analytics platform from Splunk to make it possible to configure the Splunk Universal Forwarder to index and analyze events […]
Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT
Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […]
Red Hat Unveils Ansible Platform
At the AnsibleFest 2019 conference, Red Hat this week announced the general availability of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that combines several IT automation technologies into a single subscription. Built on top of Red Hat Ansible Engine, the platform also includes Red Hat Ansible Tower, a management console, and Red Hat Network Automation, an […]
With YAML Support, Puppet Dives Deeper Into DevOps
Puppet this week announced an update to Puppet Enterprise that adds additional DevOps capabilities, including integration with Bolt, an open source agentless task runner that Puppet employs to make IT automation more accessible to IT administrators. Matt Waxman, vice president of products at Puppet, said adding integration with Bolt will make it easier to integrate […]
VMware Doubles Down on IT Automation
VMware this week moved to inject application and operating system monitoring capabilities into the VMware vRealize cloud management platform to make it easier to employ dashboards to map the relationships between applications and the underlying IT infrastructure they run on. In addition, VMware enhanced its capacity optimization tools to enable IT teams to run “what […]