Over and over again, we encounter Chef users working within Amazon EC2 environments. The proliferation of AWS continues to grow six years into its existence with no signs of slowing. Not to mention increasing competition from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many others. But how did AWS begin? Well, according to our own CTO Christopher Brown, […]
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Former Chef Employee
Message Bus Takes Email to the Cloud with Opscode
More customer goodness today: Our friends at Message Bus, pioneers in cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, are using Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud IaaS providers powering the company’s innovative service. What is Message Bus’s service exactly? Well, in short, the Message Bus Global […]
Read MoreAutomating Continuous Deployment w/Chef
Opscode’s own Matt Ray recently spoke at CME Group‘s 2012 Technology Conference, presenting “Automating Infrastructure and Continuous Deployment with Chef,” to financial services IT pros, developers and architects. Check it out here. It’s a clear, informative overview on how Chef works and what benefits it delivers. Whether you’re part of a financial services organization, or […]
Read MoreSplunk revs up new SaaS platform w/Hosted Chef
Many of you in our community likely know Splunk, the innovative big data company that enables enterprise companies to collect, analyze and harness the power of their machine data. What you may not know is Splunk now offers a SaaS product designed specifically for the cloud. Splunk Storm offers the benefits of Splunk software as […]
Read MoreChef + Cloudscaling OCS 2.0 = Automated, Elastic Cloud
This week at the OpenStack Summit, our friends at Cloudscaling released Version 2.0 of their Open Cloud System (OCS), delivering the agility, performance and economic benefits of the public cloud, but deployable in your data center and under your IT team’s control. OCS 2.0 features full integration with Open Source Chef, Hosted Chef and Private […]
Read MoreAll You Wanted to Know About Continuous Delivery (Almost): Webinar + Whitepaper
We’re seeing a large number of Chef users, whether open source, Hosted or Private, deploying, or beginning to investigate, continuous application delivery. Continuous delivery follows the path set out by agile development with the goal of accelerating time-to-market, while reducing production risks. With customer demand steadily on the rise, we partnered with our friends at […]
Read MoreChef in Action @LAN.com
A few of you may have seen the news a couple months back that LAN, a leading Latin American airline, is using Opscode Hosted Chef to configure, manage and automate its data center supporting operations for LAN.com. What you haven’t seen (until now) is that as LAN.com looks to take their use of Chef to […]
Read MoreThe History of Chef – What’s in a Name?
Ever wondered how Chef got its name? Or why the heck Chef was created in the first place? We’ve got answers for you. Or, more specifically, Adam Jacob, who you all know as Opscode’s co-founder and the creator of Chef, has answers for you, including: – How Chef and Opscode came to be – Where […]
Read MoreRule the Cloud – Now w/Google, too.
Brass Tacks: With our announcement today of integration with Google Compute Engine, yesterday’s news on “Chef for OpenStack”, and previous integration news with Azure and HP Cloud, Opscode Chef is now playing a central role in the best practices for building, deploying and managing public and private clouds across the entire waterfront of cloud providers. […]
Read MoreOpscode @ VMworld – We Need Your Votes!
Virtualization makes it easier and more cost-effective to scale physical environments. But it doesn’t do much for management. That’s where Chef comes in. Chef provides the same great benefits for automating virtualized servers that if offers for cloud-based or physical resources. The thing is, not everyone knows this yet, so we need your help to […]
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