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Effortless

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Effortless is pattern to better manage Chef and Chef InSpec workloads using Chef Habitat.

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Chef Infra - Chef Infra automates infrastructure configuration, ensuring every system is configured correctly and consistently.
Chef InSpec - Automate security tests, ensuring consistent standards are enforced in every environment, at every stage of development.
Chef Habitat - Codify how the application is built, how it runs, and all of its dependencies to free the app from underlying infrastructure and make updates easy.
Chef Automate - Enterprise dashboard and analytics tool enabling cross-team collaboration with actionable insights for configuration and compliance and an auditable history of changes to environments.

Existing Users

If you're already familiar with the Chef stack, here's a quick rundown of how Effortless works.

Effortless uses a build process to pull down all your cookbooks or profiles. The build creates a single, deployable package. For Chef Infra, it contains your cookbooks, an up-to-date Chef Infra client, and the latest best practices. For Chef InSpec, it contains your profiles, an up-to-date Chef InSpec client, and the latest best practices.
At runtime, Chef Infra works without Chef Infra Server. It uses Chef Solo mode.
At runtime, Chef InSpec works without pulling profiles from Chef Automate. All profiles, including those from Chef Automate, are vendored at build time.
Chef Habitat manages Chef Infra and Chef InSpec, and provides a pull-based update strategy for continuous delivery.
This workflow is a replacement for the environment and role cookbook patterns or Berkshelf way.

Next Steps

If you are new to the Effortless pattern checkout some of the below examples and walk throughs that will help you understand what you can do with this pattern.