Zumba Fitness

Breaking a sweat is for exercising, not IT Ops.

Zumba Fitness is the world's largest dance-fitness party. To keep the party going, Zumba automated its Amazon EC2 and Rackspace cloud infrastructure with Hosted Chef™.

The Challenge

Zumba Fitness is the world's largest - and most successful - dance-fitness program, with more than 12 million people taking weekly Zumba classes in over 110,000 locations across more than 125 countries. Zumba's website serves as the hub of its business operations, from scheduling classes to selling merchandise. With its website powered by Amazon EC2 and Rackspace clouds, Zumba needed a reliable, easily scalable infrastructure automation solution to ensure resource consistency, secure change control and minimize management. manual configuration changes.

The Solution

Zumba deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate its entire cloud infrastructure, from development environments to change control processes in its Amazon EC2 and Rackspace clouds. With Hosted Chef, Zumba has eliminated manual infrastructure processes, reducing management time from weeks to days, while ensuring resource consistency and reliability for its high-traffic website. By deploying Hosted Chef, Zumba has automated every component of both its Amazon and Rackspace clouds to keep its development, staging and production environments operating seamlessly in bringing new applications and services to Zumba's website.

The Results

  • Reduce configuration management processes from weeks to days.
  • Ensure maximum resource consistency for website operations.
  • Provide historical documentation to enable secure change control.
"Today, we run just about everything we do with our infrastructure through Hosted Chef, which opens up a number of possibilities for where we can go in the future." Douglas Jarquin, Technical Operations Manager, Zumba Fitness

Zumba Fitness® is the only Latin-inspired dance-fitness program that blends red-hot international music, created by Grammy Award-winning producers, and contagious steps to form a "fitness-party" that is downright addictive.

Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba program has grown to become the world's largest - and most successful - dance-fitness program with more than 14 million people of all shapes, sizes and ages taking weekly Zumba classes in over 140,000 locations across more than 150 countries.

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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.