Progress, a company known for their expertise in infrastructure management software, recently introduced a new tool called Progress® Chef® Courier™. This tool is a component of the latest cloud-native platform, Progress® Chef 360™, designed to simplify the management of intricate workflows.
According to Progress, Chef Courier can aid IT professionals in consolidating and automating important IT tasks, ensuring they adhere to security and compliance standards. Moreover, it facilitates the convergence of application development with security operations and can handle various software environments. Users can employ Chef Courier to tailor node lists for job orchestration—scheduling and setting conditions—thereby cutting down on the effort required for identifying and resolving large-scale issues. The product also aims to centralize tools, lessen the need for a varied skill set and, alongside, reduce the costs associated with the recruitment and retention of specialized IT personnel.
“In today’s competitive landscape, rapidly delivering critical applications without compromising on security and compliance is essential for every organization,” Sundar Subramanian, EVP & General Manager of Infrastructure Management at Progress, stated in a press release. “With the release of Chef Courier, we enhance our customers’ capacity to achieve this while streamlining IT processes and integrating people, tools, and workflows. As part of our augmented focus on the existing Chef collection, Chef 360 and Chef Courier represent an advancement in our commitment, complementing our strong suite in infrastructure, security, compliance, application rollout, and edge management.”
Henk Keuris, Senior DevOps Engineer at a major South African medical insurance company and one of Chef Courier’s beta testers, shared his approval of the software, noting its user-friendliness and efficiency, allowing him to monitor all necessary components within a single interface.
Chef Courier is neutral to vendors and continues to support a range of technologies. It maintains engagement with the open-source community and offers straightforward licensing conditions, positioning itself as an alternative amidst ongoing shifts made by other competitors.
A report by Gartner predicts that the IA&O (Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration) market will gain increased significance, as infrastructure delivery teams must meet the needs of quickly evolving business and technological demands, embracing IPE (Infrastructure Platform Engineering) for superior, adaptable infrastructure delivery.
Chef Courier is offered as both SaaS and marketplace products, reducing the overhead of task management like routine system updates and incident handling in the Chef ecosystem.
