Progress, a software company that specializes in infrastructure management, has launched Progress® Chef® Courier™, a new addition to its cloud-native platform, Progress® Chef 360™. This tool is crafted to enhance job orchestration within enterprise software infrastructure, simplifying the management of intricate workflows. Chef Courier empowers IT professionals to efficiently automate and optimize critical IT processes, while ensuring adherence to security and compliance standards. It also acts as a conduit between application development and security, accommodating various software infrastructure environments.
Sundar Subramanian, EVP & General Manager of Infrastructure Management at Progress, stated, “Speeding the delivery of critical applications while meeting security and compliance requirements is a must for every business. With today’s release, we are extending our customers’ ability to do this and much more. Chef Courier helps to seamlessly unite people, tools, and workflows by streamlining critical IT processes. Along with Chef 360, Chef Courier is the next step of our increased investment in the current Chef portfolio, adding to our already robust capabilities in infrastructure, security, compliance, application delivery, and edge management.”
Henk Keuris, a Senior DevOps Engineer at a major South African medical insurance company and a beta tester of Chef Courier, commented, “It’s compact and easy to use, and I can see everything I need on one screen.”
The product is vendor-agnostic, fostering investment across various technologies, and is committed to the open-source community with transparent licensing terms. This positions Chef Courier as a competitive alternative amidst the ongoing changes in the market.
“The IA&O [Infrastructure Automation & Orchestration] market is evolving as more is demanded of infrastructure delivery teams to support rapidly changing business and technology landscapes. Gartner believes with the adoption of IPE [Infrastructure Platform Engineering] to provide the delivery of quality, flexible and optimized infrastructure, the IA&O market will become more important,” stated a Gartner report.
Chef Courier is available both as a SaaS and in marketplace options, reducing the need for tasks such as regular upgrades and incident response within the Chef environment.
