Delivering

Continuous Automation
Outperform with Chef Automate

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Date
< Customer Discovery Slide >
The shape of your organization today

ESTATE CHALLENGES GOALS

What we know about their What we know about Conclusions about where we
environment current challenges can likely help
▪ Datacenters ▪ IT initiatives ▪ Outcomes that will help this
customer
▪ Cloud, Containers, etc ▪ The state of automation and
overall performance ▪ Platform capabilities that
▪ App stack
intersect with their problems
▪ Look for patterns that align
▪ Size of infrastructure
with our outcomes ▪ Areas where we help quickly
▪ Team dynamics with large impact

The current state of application delivery in your company

Apps and experiences are the new interface
Success with digital transformation is key to business growth

PROBLEM REQUIREMENT POTENTIAL

Most enterprises aren’t very
good at shipping software
▪ Slow time-to-market
▪ Poor user experience
▪ High cost
▪ Poor predictability
▪ Vulnerabilities and risk
For organizations that have
implemented DevOps, 66%
66% saw faster realization of
business value1.
Idea Ship Gartner predicts that through
2021 market demand for app
5x development will outstrip
supply by 5x.

1—Gartner, Delivering Value at Speed

2—GartnerApps, November 2016

Disrupt or be disrupted. Outperform the competition with digital transformation.

Chef has driven the automation revolution
Our platform is a leader in Continuous Automation

OSS Leadership Strategic Vendor of F500 Key Partners

With which vendor do you think you
will be spending the most on IT tools
in three years?
Infrastructure Automation 1. BMC
2. Splunk
3. IBM
4. HP
5. New Relic
6. AWS
7. Servicenow
8. CA
Application Automation 9. Microsoft

10. Chef
11. Solarwinds
12. Atlassian

Compliance Automation Goldman Sachs Spending Survey, 2016

Hybrid is the standard model for Modern App Teams
Teams need to deliver all infrastructure, any app, everywhere. Continuously.

Legacy Reality Emerging Landscape The state of an app portfolio

Architecture APP A APP B

Microservices Monolithic
MONOLITHS MICROSERVICES

Physical Runtime Container Runtime

Runtime Datacenter Datacenter

PHYSICAL CONTAINERS

Infrastructure APP C APP D

Microservices Microservices
DATACENTER CLOUD

Physical Runtime Container Runtime

Automation
” Infrastructure Compliance Application
Cloud Datacenter

Most enterprises are going to operate in hybrid mode for many years to come
Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services (re:Invent 2016)
Vertical Integration is key to velocity
A balance of increasing speed, improved efficiency and decreasing risk

Tension caused by the …can be resolved by vertical …to deliver a future of developer
demands placed on teams… integration and automation… services and software at speed

LOB LOB
Line of Line of LOB LOB LOB LOB
Business Business

FOCUS ON SPEED

DEVELOPER SERVICES
BUILD • DEPLOY • MANAGE • COLLABORATE

FOCUS ON RISK

SHARED SERVICES SHARED SERVICES SHARED SERVICES

Business Value with Developer Services
Shifting capabilities to match business requirements
Traditional Central IT Developer Services Teams
System Administrator Developer Services Engineer
Centralized Enterprise IT Team Line of Business Development Team
I manage and deliver infrastructure required to run I provide services that developers and development
software in my organization. teams use to build and deliver applications.

Managing and lowering costs of running, configuring, and Providing on-demand, self-service infrastructure and services
BUILD
maintaining infrastructure tailored to developer needs

Reliably managing changes to infrastructure Enabling development teams to ship software at speed while
DEPLOY
requirements maintaining quality and reducing risk

Reducing risk to my organization from my infrastructure Enabling development teams to get insights into speed,
MANAGE
and software that runs on it efficiency and risk of delivery of their software

”Delivering configured infrastructure and handing off

responsibility to development teams
COLLABORATE
Reducing friction by enabling full stack transparency and
management capability with separation of duties

Don’t measure me on traditional IT metrics, but on the metrics of the business

Jim Fowler, CIO, GE Capital
The impact of outperformance
5x Revenue Growth, 8x Profitability Growth, 2x Shareholder Return Growth

B2B digital leaders turn in

Firms with high performing IT

2x
stronger financial performance. organizations were twice as likely to
Revenue growth, Operating profit (EBIT) Return to shareholder (TRS) exceed their profitability, market
CAGR, 2010-15 Growth, CAGR, 2010-15 growth, CAGR, 2010-15 share, and productivity goals
The State of DevOps, 2016

~5X ~8X ~2X

HIGH PERFORMING IT ORGANIZATIONS:
4.3% 13.5% 18.1% ▪ 200x more frequent releases
10.3% ▪ 24x faster at recovering from failures
0.8%
▪ 3x lower change failure rate
-1.8%

Top-quartile digital Rest of B2B

▪ 255x shorter lead times
B2B companies sample

No high velocity company has gotten there without automation as a foundation

Software success metrics
Quantifying outcomes to deliver software at speed

Idea
Velocity: time from idea to ship Ship

SPEED EFFICIENCY RISK

Measure of rate Measure of effectiveness Measure of quality
of software change of software change of software change

Deployment Time from Change failure Mean time Compliance audit Time deploying
frequency commit to deploy rate to resolve frequency remediation
 Focus on Speed
Measuring the rate of software change

HIGH IT MEDIUM IT LOW IT

PERFORMERS PERFORMERS PERFORMERS

USE CASES INCLUDE:

DEPLOYMENT On-demand Week - Month
Month – 6 ▪ Application Delivery
FREQUENCY Month
▪ Build Pipelines

TIME FROM COMMIT Month - 6

< 1 Hour Week - Month
TO DEPLOY month

Standard Bank pushes ideas from commit to deploy in 18 minutes with Chef
 Focus on Efficiency
Measuring the effectiveness of software change

HIGH IT MEDIUM IT LOW IT

PERFORMERS PERFORMERS PERFORMERS

USE CASES INCLUDE:

CHANGE 0-15% 31-45% * 16-30% ▪ Configuration Management
FAILURE RATE
▪ Server Drift

MEAN TIME TO
< 1 Hour < 1 Day < 1 Day *
RESOLVE

Intuit reduced change failure rate by 90% with Chef

 Focus on Risk
Measuring the quality of software change

HIGH IT MEDIUM IT LOW IT

PERFORMERS PERFORMERS PERFORMERS

USE CASES INCLUDE:

COMPLIANCE AUDIT On-Demand Week - Month
Month - 12 ▪ Compliance Automation
FREQUENCY Months
▪ Compliance Coverage

TIME
Month - 6
DEPLOYING < 1 Hour Week - Month
Months
REMEDIATION

GE Digital continuously scans and maintains current compliance status with Chef
Focus on your Success
“
“
We’re no longer an
airline. We’re a software
company with wings.
Citi relies on Chef as the automation platform used
to help transform over 3,000 application teams. —Veresh Sita, CIO, Alaska Airlines

Chef is the platform for a continuous delivery

pipeline empowering application teams to ship a
thousand plus changes per day across “Carl Sagan
size deployments.” What if..?
YOU COULD NOT ONLY
OUTPERFORM YOUR OWN PLAN,
BUT THE PLANS OF YOUR PEERS
GE touts Chef as the most rapidly adopted
technology in the history of GE.
The Chef Automate Platform
Continuous Automation for High Velocity IT
Delivering software at speed
“
Continuous
The capabilities needed across infrastructure, configuration
applications, and compliance automation tools (aka
infrastructure as code)
are foundational to
“
COLLABORATE DevOps initiatives.
—Gartner, Inc.
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs) Market Guide for Continuous Configuration
Automation Tools, Dec 2016

BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE

▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply
▪ Approve ▪ Execute ▪ Audit
▪ Update ▪ Measure How..?
▪ Log CAN YOU DELIVER SOFTWARE
AT SPEED FOR YOUR BUSINESS
The Chef Automate Platform
Continuous Automation for High Velocity IT

Increase Speed
▪ Package infrastructure and app
COLLABORATE configuration as code
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)
▪ Continuously automate
infrastructure and app updates
BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE
▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure Improve Efficiency
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply
▪ Approve ▪ Execute ▪ Audit ▪ Define and execute standard
▪ Update ▪ Measure
workflows and automation
▪ Log

▪ Audit and measure effectiveness of

AUTOMATION ENGINES automation

Infrastructure Automation
Application Automation
Decrease Risk
▪ Define compliance rules as code
Compliance Automation
▪ Deliver continuous compliance as
part of standard workflow
Deliver on Speed
Improve velocity with automated build, deploy and configuration

TIME FROM COMMIT

COLLABORATE
TO DEPLOY
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)

BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE ▪ Approve and build changes

▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure faster using a robust workflow
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply
▪ Approve ▪ Execute ▪ Audit ▪ Provision new environments
▪ Update ▪ Measure
▪ Log quickly
▪ Deploy updates frequently
AUTOMATION ENGINES

Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation

Deliver on Efficiency
Achieve higher service availability and faster recovery times

MEAN TIME TO
COLLABORATE
RESOLVE
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)

BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE ▪ Manage the configuration drift of

▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure infrastructure and applications
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply
▪ Approve ▪ Execute ▪ Audit ▪ Measure failures and gain insights
▪ Update ▪ Measure
▪ Log into making improvements
▪ Collaborate across teams by
AUTOMATION ENGINES integrating various toolchains into
a standard automated workflow

Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation

Deliver on Risk
Reduce risk through automation of security and compliance management

COMPLIANCE
COLLABORATE
AUDIT FREQUENCY
Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)

BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE ▪ Package compliance as code and

▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure address InfoSec policies earlier in
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply
▪ Approve ▪ Execute ▪ Audit
the development phase
▪ Update ▪ Measure
▪ Log ▪ Test deployed infrastructure and
application compliance
on-demand
AUTOMATION ENGINES
▪ Log and audit policy failures for
compliance remediation

Infrastructure Automation Application Automation Compliance Automation

Chef Automate is at the heart of software delivery
The vendors you trust, trust Chef for continuous automation

WORKFLOW Technology Partners:

FORMAT COLLABORATE RUNTIME

Workflow • Local development • Integration • Tooling (APIs & SDKs)

BUILD DEPLOY MANAGE

▪ Package ▪ Provision ▪ Secure
▪ Test ▪ Configure ▪ Comply

AUTOMATION ENGINES

Infrastructure Application Compliance

Automation Automation Automation

ENVIRONMENT
Support, services, and training
Chef as your partner for success with continuous automation

Support from the source
▪ On Demand.
Chef can provide dedicated
support for your installation
with experts from our
customer success team.
▪ Vibrant Community.
In addition to direct support,
Chef has a huge and active
community ready and
willing to provide guidance
and best practice.
Services for outcomes
▪ Custom development.
Chef can design and build
configuration cookbooks,
compliance profiles and
application packages using
our in-house experts.
▪ Accelerators.
Our architects and DevOps
practitioners can provide the
experience needed to get to
success quickly
Training for capability
▪ Public and Private Training.
We can deliver in-person and
on-demand training to suit
your needs.
▪ Certification.
Chef can help ensure your
team has the right
knowledge for continued
success.

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By bringing in Chef, we were able to automate very heterogeneous
infrastructures that included both legacy and new applications
Company Background
Quick Stats
▪ At the forefront of agile, lean, and DevOps
movements
Customers use Chef, including
▪ Open Source foundation >1k Alaska Airlines, Disney,
Facebook, Intuit & Target
▪ Tens of millions of machines under management by
Chef
Organizations using Chef to
▪ 265 employees. Offices in Seattle, San Francisco, >25k improve their speed, efficiency
& risk management
London, Berlin

OUR VISION 70% of the Fortune 500 tech sector uses Chef

The most enduring and transformative

companies use Chef to become fast, efficient,
and innovative software driven organizations
Additional
Chef
Infrastructure automation
and delivery at scale

▪ Manages deployment
and on-going automation
▪ Define reusable resources
and infrastructure state as code
▪ Scale elegantly from one to tens of
thousands of managed nodes across
multiple complex environments
▪ Community, Certified Partner, and
Chef supported content available
for all common automation tasks
InSpec
Turn security and
compliance into code
PART OF A PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS COMPLIANCE
▪ Translate compliance into Code
Scan for Build & Test Build & Test
▪ Clearly express statements of policy Compliance Locally CI/CD Remediate Verify

▪ Move risk to build/test from runtime

▪ Find issues early
A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF AN INSPEC CIS RULE
▪ Write code quickly
▪ Run code anywhere
▪ Inspect machines, data and APIs

…
Habitat
Automation that travels with the app

▪ Ease the burden of managing microservice

apps and bring benefits of apps architected
for microservices to traditional applications
▪ Gain consistent management of new
and traditional applications across their lifecycle
▪ Provides application portability for new and traditional
apps
▪ Autonomous nodes self-manage runtime state
of application based upon policy you define
▪ APIs expose application behaviors
as data for better management
▪ Works in tandem with infrastructure automation
▪ Makes applications running on containers,
PaaS, virtual machines, bare metal, … better
Chef sets the standard for IT automation
Backed by leading analysts Driving outcomes for customers

“Africa’s Standard Bank Seeks Speed Through Software

Automation, DevOps.” MAY 2015 | Read Article >

“Chef is playing a vital role in helping organizations of all

sizes implement high velocity development and
operations environments.” JUL 2015 | Read Article >
Best-in-class automation

“A rich dev and test toolchain, collaborative end-to-end

workflow, and improved Windows support put Chef in a league
of its own.” AUG 2016 | Read Article >

“Using Chef… the result has been that the product team
can answer the question, ‘What was the state of the Industry-changing innovation
infrastructure on 29 August?’” SEP 2016 | Read Article >

“Chef wants to make it as easy as possible for businesses to run

their applications… the idea behind Habitat is enormously
powerful.” JUN 2016 | Read Article >
Chef: Leader in the DevOps Market

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Leading change in a large and profitable enterprise is challenging for a number
of reasons. Chef helps make change work at Target.