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Opscode and IBM Join Forces to Bring Open Source Cloud Automation to the Enterprise
By Lucas Welch
This morning, we announced an exciting collaboration with our friends at IBM to bring the full power of Opscode Chef to IBM’s enterprise customers. From Opscode Chef integration with IBM SmartCloud, to new cookbooks, content and more, we’re working closely with IBM to deliver on the promise of DevOps in accelerating the speed of business.
Read moreAwesome Chefs – Sonian Takes Archive & Search to the Cloud w/Opscode
By Lucas Welch
Good news this morning, as we announced that Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered email archiving and search, has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™. Sonian is using Hosted Chef to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers powering the company’s innovative archive and search service.
Read moreOn the Road to #ChefConf – Incident Command System Workshop
There are many truisms in complex systems. One such truism: incidents happen. We all strive to decrease the mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR). For more than 40 years a system has been used across many industries to organize, manage, and lead people trying to solve problems.
Read moreRealSelf Builds Online Consumer Health Community w/Hosted Chef
By Lucas Welch
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.
Read moreAchieving “Awesomness” with Opscode Chef (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series we focused primarily on the value of leverage and how tools, inside and outside of the context of IT can directly influence the output of the desired function.
Read moreManaging cloud infrastructure is easy when you have the cheat code
By Lucas Welch
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.
Read moreAWS OpsWorks Uses Opscode Chef as Default Automation Engine
By Lucas Welch
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.
Read moreGetaroom Makes Booking Hotels Cheap and Easy with Opscode
By Lucas Welch
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.
Read moreAchieving “Awesomness” with Opscode Chef (Part I)
I’d like to start by sharing a statement that was articulated to me a while ago by a vendor of antiquated enterprise technologies : “It’s not about the tool but the craftsman that wields it.
Read moreFacebook Likes Opscode and Private Chef
By Lucas Welch
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.
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