Continuing our series of customer spotlights, today we published a case study on RealSelf, a consumer health and beauty community that helps people make informed decisions on elective cosmetic services. To keep pace with rapid growth of its online community, RealSelf needed a solution capable of automating configuration for its application development pipeline. As the […]
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Welcoming Barry Crist, New Vice President, Enterprise, to Opscode
This morning, we added a new team member to the Opscode family, Barry Crist, our new Vice President, Enterprise. Barry was previously CEO of Likewise, a company with a strong open source to enterprise go-to-market model that had wide industry reach including OEM agreements with VMware, Dell, HP, Riverbed, and EMC. Likewise was acquired by […]
Read MoreManaging cloud infrastructure is easy when you have the cheat code
Another week, another tale of some Awesome Chefs in our Community doing big things with Chef. This time, the story comes from right here in Opscode’s backyard of Seattle. Meteor Entertainment, which publishes free-to-play games globally, with an emphasis on community engagement, needed to scale out hundreds of Amazon EC2 servers to deliver HAWKEN (which […]
Read MoreAWS OpsWorks Uses Opscode Chef as Default Automation Engine
It has been an eventful February here at Opscode. As many of you know, on February 4th, we announced that Facebook is using Private Chef to automate the configuration and management of its web-tier infrastructure. That is some hefty validation of Chef at dramatic scale. Then, this week, both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Opscode […]
Read MoreGetaroom Makes Booking Hotels Cheap and Easy with Opscode
More customer awesomeness today, this time from our friends at Getaroom, who make finding the best rates on hotels anywhere in the world fast and easy. Getaroom has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration management for the Amazon EC2 infrastructure powering their popular travel service, achieving a mean time to new compute capacity of […]
Read MoreCycle Computing Puts Chef 11 Through its Paces w/10K+ AWS Servers
We’ve been posting a lot of cool news today and now it’s time for a bit more… Our friends at Cycle Computing helped test the scale of the new Chef 11 last week, creating a 10K+ server instance (10,598 servers, to be exact) in AWS using only a single Chef 11 server. The results? Dynamite. […]
Read MoreFacebook Likes Opscode and Private Chef
Yes, that’s right, folks, Facebook, one of the largest infrastructures on the planet, has deployed Opscode Private Chef™ to automate configuration and management within its web-tier infrastructure. Why did Facebook need Chef? Because Facebook’s infrastructure team has to manage thousands of servers, configurations, and administrative access policies across a very dynamic compute environment. Why did […]
Read MoreUnleashing the New Generation of Chef
It’s a really big day here at Opscode, and when I say big, I mean “10K nodes from one Chef server” big… “automating tens of thousands of servers” big… or, as our CTO Christopher Brown says, “Carl Sagan big.” Let me explain why: 1) Chef 11 is now available for free download! Re-written from the […]
Read MorePrezi Makes Your Ideas Matter w/Hosted Chef
Following on the heels of our last blog on customer goodness, this time we’re profiling a company who many of you may already be familiar with – Prezi. Prezi provides an ‘open canvas’ that helps more than 17 million users better communicate their ideas. The company’s zooming presentation software lets users choose between the cloud, […]
Read MoreAutomation Rules @ University of Pennsylvania
We’re getting 2013 started right with yet another story of Opscode Chef customer awesomeness. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. They’re also using Hosted Chef to do some pretty rockin’ things with their infrastructure. Within Wharton Computing, […]
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