Infrastructure Automation in Minutes with Chef Opsmith
Use AI-powered Progress Chef Opsmith to accelerate DevOps workflows in the Progress® Chef® 360℠ platform by auto-generating cookbooks, modernizing legacy code, creating compliance profiles and remediating drift in minutes.
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With AIOps in the Chef 360 Platform, You Can:
Automate Infrastructure with Natural Language
Turn operational intent into automated actions using simple prompts. IT Ops teams can respond faster to incidents, maintenance tasks and changes without scripting expertise.
Develop Infrastructure as Code in Minutes
Create, validate and execute compliant infrastructure as code in minutes, to configure infrastructure even across complex, large-scale environments.
Enforce Policy as Code with Intent
Stating your intent using AI to define, validate and enforce compliant controls across complex, large-scale environments.
Execute Changes with Confidence and Control
Leverage AI to accelerate execution, with governed workflows, validation and human oversight enabling security and control at every step.
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Explore our intuitive platform and discover how easily your teams can democratize DevOps through flexible, UI-driven automation
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Express your operational goals in simple, natural language and let AI handle everything else—from configuration and deployment to system health validation.
Turn your intent into automation scripts, test them in a secure sandbox, fix failures and deliver a validated, production-ready script.
Review, approve and deploy automation scripts across your entire estate at scale with confidence while keeping a human in the loop.
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What Can Chef Opsmith Do For You?
Create Bash or Powershell Scripts
Easily create Bash and PowerShell scripts using AI, test safely in a sandbox, then deploy confidently to production environments.
Upgrade Legacy Cookbooks Effortlessly
Chef Opsmith analyzes your existing cookbooks and automatically upgrade cookbooks using AI to the latest Chef versions, custom resources and best practices.
Schedule and Execute Ad Hoc Jobs
Define your task requirements, set execution schedules and let Chef Opsmith handle the automation, from one-time fixes to recurring maintenance windows.
Generate Cookbooks Instantly
Describe your infrastructure requirements in plain language and Chef Opsmith generates complete, idiomatic Chef cookbooks using AI with proper resource declarations, attributes and dependencies.
Create Compliance Profiles
Chef Opsmith generates comprehensive compliance controls and profiles based on your requirements that align with benchmarks (CIS/STIG) or your own custom policies.
Convert Non-Chef Scripts to Cookbooks
Leverage your existing investments in manifests/modules/playbooks and convert them to Chef cookbooks instantly.
FAQs
Chef Opsmith is an AI-driven operations capability built into the Progress Chef 360 platform. Simply describe what you want in plain language - Opsmith generates the automation, validates it in a sandbox and prepares it for execution. It helps IT teams reduce manual scripting, catch issues early and move from intent to production-ready automation in minutes.
Modern infrastructures generate massive volumes of data across cloud, on‑premises, containerised, and hybrid environments, far more than humans can analyze manually. AIOps helps teams cut through alert noise, recognise patterns across systems, and respond faster to incidents. This reduces downtime, improves service reliability, and lowers operational stress on teams.
With AIOps, teams can move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations. Key outcomes include faster root cause analysis, reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR), early detection of anomalies, and the ability to predict issues before they impact users. Over time, AIOps enables more stable, resilient, and self‑healing infrastructure.
Yes. Chef Opsmith helps identify policy drift and abnormal behaviour by continuously analysing infrastructure data. When combined with Chef’s compliance and remediation capabilities, it enables faster detection, response, and improved audit readiness.
AIOps helps teams reduce alert noise, detect issues faster, and identify root causes automatically. It improves system reliability, lowers operational effort, and enables proactive IT operations by turning large volumes of data into actionable insights.
AIOps provides the intelligence and insight, while automation platforms like the Chef solution provide the execution. Together, they enable closed‑loop operations where issues are detected, analysed, and automatically remediated using policy‑driven automation. This combination helps organisations operate infrastructure at scale with greater speed, consistency, and confidence.
Yes. Chef Opsmith is designed for large, complex environments, supporting scale, consistency, and governance across hybrid and regulated infrastructures. It complements enterprise requirements for reliability, control, and operational resilience.
AIOps correlates related events, suppresses duplicate alerts, and prioritises what matters most, so teams focus on real issues instead of chasing noise. By automating analysis and learning from historical patterns, AIOps reduces repetitive manual work and allows IT teams to spend more time on high‑value initiatives rather than firefighting.
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