Managed Chef in the Cloud: Introducing AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate

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AWS OpsWorks launches a fully managed Chef Automate server that gets provisioned in about ten minutes, includes automatic Chef version upgrades, scheduled maintenance windows, incremental backups (up to 30 generations, many customers use ~10), and hourly per-node billing. It exposes native API endpoints like the associate node API so EC2 auto‑scaling can register and remove nodes without packing keys. Demo shows EC2 and on‑prem support, continuous compliance scans (every chef run or ~half‑hour), and standard tooling support (knife, Test Kitchen, Inspec) that actually works in practice.

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1. 0:00Introduction to configuration
2. 10:12Understanding Chef Automate
3. 22:46AWS OpsWorks for Chef
4. 28:29Live demo and recap

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