Build a Recipe for Success with Chef and Splunk
summary
Integration work shows Splunk ingesting Chef telemetry and using Chef Automate InSpec Habitat to surface deployment timing, failures, and security posture, with an explicit remediation path that triggers cookbooks to fix services. Community cookbook lives on GitHub and the marketplace, tested with Kitchen with Travis CI, and supports standalone search heads, index clustering, syslog inputs, heavy and universal forwarders and a deployment server. A planned Centrals add-on bundles visual, use case driven deploy examples.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23Disclaimer
- 0:39Splunk
- 1:01Customer Expectations
- 1:21Make Machine Accessible
- 2:00Eliminate complexity of IT
- 2:13Lack of visibility
- 2:30Data is important
- 2:45Splunk and Chef
- 3:03Automate Inspect and Habitat
- 4:54Remediation
- 5:28Centrals
- 5:56Community Cookbook
- 6:37Automation Engineer Cookbook
- 7:33Chef Development Kit
- 8:26Validation
- 9:00Use Cases
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