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Effortless is automated best practices for Chef Infra and Chef InSpec.
What can you do with Effortless Infrastructure?
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Deliver brand new infrastructure configuration and automated security tests to your entire fleet, in 60 seconds.
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Use a secure, pull-based workflow that scales. Use the same workflow in airgapped environments.
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Update Chef Infra and Chef InSpec automatically, with always up-to-date best practices.
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Report infrastructure configuration and security test runs to Chef Automate, automatically.
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Chef Infra - Chef Infra automates infrastructure configuration, ensuring every system is configured correctly and consistently.
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Chef InSpec - Automate security tests, ensuring consistent standards are enforced in every environment, at every stage of development.
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Chef Habitat - Codify how the application is built, how it runs, and all of its dependencies to free the app from underlying infrastructure and make updates easy.
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Chef Automate - Enterprise dashboard and analytics tool enabling cross-team collaboration with actionable insights for configuration and compliance and an auditable history of changes to environments.
If you're already familiar with the Chef stack, here's a quick rundown of how Effortless works.
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Effortless uses a build process to pull down all your cookbooks or profiles. The build creates a single, deployable package. For Chef Infra, it contains your cookbooks, an up-to-date Chef Infra client, and the latest best practices. For Chef InSpec, it contains your profiles, an up-to-date Chef InSpec client, and the latest best practices.
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At runtime, Chef Infra works without Chef Infra Server. It uses Chef Solo mode.
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At runtime, Chef InSpec works without pulling profiles from Chef Automate. All profiles, including those from Chef Automate, are vendored at build time.
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Chef Habitat manages Chef Infra and Chef InSpec, and provides a pull-based update strategy for continuous delivery.
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This workflow is a full replacement and improvement over the environment and role cookbook patterns or Berkshelf way.
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Effortless is production and enterprise ready because it is built on already battle-tested Chef tools that you know already.
If you're new to Effortless, the examples directory has a list of different kinds of packages and workflows that you can use to get started. If you just want to try something, start with examples/infra-linux-hardening.