In The News

"Before this, there were ways of configuring servers and managing them, but DevOps has gotten it right."

Cade Metz, Wired Enterprise

"Chef has already proven remarkably popular both among users needing to simplify deployment of their web infrastructures, as well as among software providers."

Derrick Harris, GigaOm

"Server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which lives and dies on Windows in the data center, helped to put together and test [Chef on Windows]."

Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Register

"The software has helped companies tap vast stores of computing power in new ways, accelerating research in fields such as financial modeling and genetics."

Olga Kharif and Ashlee Vance, BusinessWeek

Press Releases

FEB
07
LAN Takes Flight With Opscode For Data Center Automation

By Jay Wampold: One of Latin America's Largest Airlines Selects Hosted Chef™ for Rapid Data Center Configuration and Automation

FEB
07
MercadoLibre Deploys Opscode Chef® To Automate Its OpenStack Private Cloud

By Jay Wampold: Leading E-Commerce Company with Presence in 14 Countries Uses Chef to Automate Cloud Infrastructure and Manage Rapid Deployment of New Infrastructure and Applications

JAN
24
Opscode Announces Inaugural #ChefConf 2012 User Conference

By Jay Wampold: Event Brings IT Professionals Together to Develop Chef®-Based Infrastructure Automation Skills as Cloud Computing Rises to Top Priority in the Enterprise

NOV
21
Opscode Expands Management Team To Meet Rising Enterprise Demand For Cloud Infrastructure Automation

By Jay Wampold: Adam Jacob Named Chief Customer Officer; George Moberly Named Vice President of Product Management

NOV
07
Opscode Deploys Rackspace Cloud Private Edition

By Jay Wampold: As a Rackspace Certified Deployment Partner, Opscode's Chef Serves to Deploy and Operate Large-Scale Cloud Infrastructure

OCT
24
Opscode Delivers Cloud Infrastructure Automation To Windows Environments

By Jay Wampold: Release of New Chef Software Enables Automation of Windows Infrastructure, Including PowerShell, IIS, SQL Server and Windows Services

OCT
10
Socrata Deploys Opscode to Manage and Scale Growth in the Adoption of the Socrata Open Data Platform™ across Government

By Jay Wampold: Open Data Services Provider Relies on Cloud Infrastructure Automation to Securely Manage Data Center Configurations and Expand Auditability

OCT
03
Opscode Releases New Chef Software to Rapidly Deploy and Automate OpenStack Clouds

By Jay Wampold: New Chef Cookbooks Developed in Conjunction with Dell and Rackspace Enable Rapid Deployment and Automation of Computing, Object Storage, Imaging Services, Monitoring and Authentication of OpenStack Clouds

SEP
19
Full 360 Deploys Opscode for Next Generation Business Intelligence Solutions

By Jay Wampold: Systems Integrator Leverages Hosted Chef for Cloud Infrastructure Automation

SEP
13
IT Operations Expert Sarah Novotny Joins Opscode

By Jay Wampold: OSCON and IOUG MySQL council chair and co-founder of Blue Gecko to facilitate enterprise adoption of cloud infrastructure automation

SEP
06
Marshall University Achieves Greater IT Agility with Opscode

By Jay Wampold: Large Public University Uses Chef for Automation and Configuration Management Freeing up Time and Resources

SEP
06
BookRenter Chooses Opscode to Automate Infrastructure to Meet Scalability Requirements

By Jay Wampold: Online Textbook Rental Company Makes Educational Materials More Accessible Just in Time for Students Heading Back to School

AUG
23
Opscode Co-founder Jesse Robbins Recognized by MIT Technology Review's TR35 Listing of the World's Top Young Innovators for 2011

By Jay Wampold: TR35 Honorees to be Recognized at Technology Review's Emtech MIT 2011 Conference in October

AUG
09
Opscode Names Mitch Hill As Chief Executive Officer

By Jay Wampold: Large Market Opportunity and Pioneering Technology Attract Former CEO of Avanade to Lead Cloud Infrastructure Automation Company

JUL
19
IGN Leverages Opscode to Consolidate and Automate Datacenters

By Jay Wampold: Leading Video Game Source Uses Hosted Chef for Efficient Management of Platform Configurations and Scalability

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Testimonials

 

"Okay, @opscode Chef is pretty great. The only thing better than Unix is Unix made programmable."

@cswheeler, April 27, 2011

"The more I use #chef @opscode the more I love it, and the more I realize I did it all wrong. ( the hard way )"

@jassinpain, April 1, 2011

"47 lines of Chef code, and a heap of databags is all it takes to manage users/groups on our incredibly complex Banner ERP system. #opschef"

@atomic_penguin, March 15, 2011

"Honestly, the community collaboration and contribution on @opscode #chef is fantastic."

@mdcarruthers, January 4, 2011

"Having a lightbulb night with chef by @opscode ...holy #$%^ it's awesome."

@gaker, September 28, 2010

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Opscode Blog

 

AUG
11
Chef 10.4 Released

By Bryan McClellan: Another Opscode Chef release, this time with over 85 resolved bugs.

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