Chef is an automation tool for keeping infrastructure as code. It has many benefits. Some of these are as follows:
- Cloud Deployment: We can use Chefto to perform automated deployment in a cloud environment.
- Multi-cloud support: WithChefwecan even uses multiple-cloud providers for our infrastructure.
- Hybrid Deployment: Chef supports both cloud-based as well as datacenter-based infrastructure.
- High Availability: With Chef automation, we can create a high-availability environment. In case of hardware failure, Chefcanmaintain or start new servers in an automated way to maintain a highly available environment.