Cloud Management

Define Once, Run Anywhere

Create a code-based blueprint to consistently manage your cloud infrastructure and its related interdependencies. Build and rebuild across nearly every public and private cloud platform in minutes or hours, rather than weeks or months. Streamline workflows.

Medidata used Chef to provide a model for reuse enabling the delivery of highly available web-based cloud services.

“Hosted Chef gave us a model for reuse that not only makes configuring resources, environments and application testing much less time-consuming, but it also creates a complete documented history of our infrastructure that's critical to our clients' data security.” Glen de Vries, President, Medidata Solutions

Meet Peak Demand

Scale up or down by rapidly provisioning and de-provisioning servers on any public or private cloud. Create a fully automated cloud infrastructure that can build, destroy and rebuild on demand as needed.

Meteor Entertainment used Chef to scale out and configure hundreds of Amazon EC2 resources, ensuring 100% uptime for gamers across 20 countries playing their online game Hawken.

“Managing a globally distributed environment with only two engineers would be impossible without automation. Hosted Chef's easily reusable code lets us bootstrap, run, and deploy servers in no time, while the repeatable configurations ensure our system's resiliency.” Sarah Novotny, CIO, Meteor Entertainment

Gain Visibility Across Your Cloud-Based Resources

See comprehensive resource information and search across your entire cloud-based infrastructure. Provide alerts when systems are out of policy and identify threats before they impact operations.

Sonian used Chef to implement automated system monitoring to ensure all configurations, applications and systems are consistently operational.

“Hosted Chef gave us the foundation to build Sensu, which we simply set and let run automatically every half hour to check system health. If something's wrong, we'll know immediately and can easily use Hosted Chef's code repository to automate a fix in near real-time. It definitely helps us sleep better at night.” Pete Zimmerman, VP of Services and Operations, Sonian

Manage Complex Infrastructure at Any Scale

Consistently build and rebuild cloud infrastructure on demand as needed. Scale up or down by rapidly provisioning and de-provisioning servers. Take advantage of high-availability clustering.

Brightcove uses Chef with Amazon EC2 to scale its digital media publishing platform on demand in support of their thousands of customers.

“To deliver such a multi-faceted service, our infrastructure needs to be able to adapt at a moment's notice. Amazon EC2 gives us the resources we need, but to ensure consistency and maximum flexibility, we had to automate with Hosted Chef.” Ashley Streb, Vice President of Technology at Brightcove