Getaroom

Managing infrastructure should be as easy as booking a hotel.
Getaroom makes finding the best rate on hotels and lodging fast and simple. Opscode Hosted Chef™ ensures managing the company's Amazon EC2 infrastructure is just as easy.

The Challenge

The variety of front-end and back-end applications, server configurations, and environments within Getaroom's infrastructure, not to mention huge user demand spikes during peak periods, present a variety of challenges:

  • Manage configuration management for wide variety of server roles and multiple Ruby versions across production, testing and development environments
  • Ensure system consistency and repeatability to enable continuous application updates
  • Manage a large number of user accounts across all development and operations groups
  • Integrate development and testing for both internally-generated applications and third party vendor applications

The Solution

Getaroom's engineering team deployed Hosted Chef to automate configuration management for all of its Amazon EC2 infrastructure resources and integrated Hosted Chef with the Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) application to configure all application updates for production.

The Results

  • Reduced mean time for adding compute capacity to less than 30 minutes
  • Created mirrored testing and production environments to ensure maximum system consistency
  • Automated user authentication to improve security and streamline account access across all user groups
  • Accelerated rate of internal application development and third party application integration
"Automation is absolutely critical to our success and Hosted Chef has been instrumental in managing our platform. It ensures consistency throughout our infrastructure and makes spinning up new servers a snap." Ben Poweski, Architect, Getaroom

Getaroom.com provides travelers a state-of-the-art lodging website (www.getaroom.com), which offers travelers the lowest hotel rates on the Internet. Clients calling its toll-free call center at 800-HOTELS-8 (800-468-3578) can also receive the benefits of unpublished pricing, with rates typically 10 to 20 percent less than published rates on its site and other internet sites.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.