AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate - AWS OpsWorks
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AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate

Important

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate reached end of life on May 5, 2024 and has been disabled for both new and existing customers. We recommend that existing customers migrate to Chef SaaS or an alternative solution. If you have questions, you can reach out to the AWS Support Team on AWS re:Post or through AWS Premium Support.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate lets you run a Chef Automate server in AWS. You can provision a Chef server within minutes, and let AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate handle its operations, backups, restorations, and software upgrades. AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate frees you to focus on core configuration management tasks, instead of managing a Chef server.

A Chef Automate server manages the configuration of nodes in your environment by instructing chef-client which Chef recipes to run on the nodes, stores information about nodes, and serves as a central repository for your Chef cookbooks. AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate provides Chef servers that include premium features of Chef Automate: Chef Infra and Chef InSpec.

An AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance. AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate servers are configured to run the newest version of Amazon Linux (Amazon Linux 2). For information about what has changed in this version of Chef Automate, see the Chef Automate Release Notes. The following table describes the Chef components that are installed on an AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server.

Component name Description Version installed on AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server
Chef Automate

Chef Automate is an enterprise server software package that provides automated workflow for continuous deployment, and insights about managed nodes in a web-based management console. Chef Automate delivers infrastructure automation by including Chef Infra, security and compliance information and enforcement by including Chef InSpec, and automated deployment by including Chef Habitat.

For more information about Chef Automate, see Chef Automate on the Chef website.

 2.0
Chef Infra

Formerly called Chef Server, Chef Infra Server uses the Chef Infra Client (chef-client) agent to continuously apply configurations to managed nodes to maintain a desired state.

For more information about Infra, see Chef Infra on the Chef website.

 12.x
Chef InSpec

Chef InSpec describes security and compliance rules that can be shared between software engineers, operations, and security engineers. Compliance, security, and other policy requirements form the framework for automated tests that the chef-client agent can run against managed nodes, ensuring consistent enforcement of standards.

For more information about InSpec, see Chef InSpec on the Chef website.

 3.9.0

The minimum supported version of chef-client on nodes associated with an AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server is 13.x. We recommend running at least 14.10.9, or the most current, stable chef-client version.

When new minor versions of Chef software become available, system maintenance is designed to update the minor version of Chef Automate and Chef Server on the server automatically, as soon as it passes AWS testing. AWS performs extensive testing to verify that Chef upgrades are production-ready and do not disrupt existing customer environments, so there can be lags between Chef software releases and their availability for application to existing OpsWorks for Chef Automate servers. System maintenance also upgrades your server to the newest version of Amazon Linux.

You can connect any on-premises computer or EC2 instance that is running a supported operating system and has network access to an AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server. For a list of supported operating systems for nodes that you want to manage, see the Chef website. The chef-client agent software is installed on nodes that you want to manage with a Chef server.

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Region Support for AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate

The following regional endpoints support AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate servers. AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate creates resources that are associated with your Chef servers, such as instance profiles, users, and service roles, in the same regional endpoint as your Chef server. Your Chef server must be in a VPC. You can use a VPC that you create or already have, or use the default VPC.

  • US East (Ohio) Region

  • US East (N. Virginia) Region

  • US West (N. California) Region

  • US West (Oregon) Region

  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region

  • Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region

  • Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region

  • Europe (Frankfurt) Region

  • Europe (Ireland) Region