---
title: Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation
description: O'Reilly Radar interviewed me on Chef's evolution from open-source project to enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.
doc_version: "1.0"
last_updated: 2012-05-11
slug: jesse-robbins-infrastructure-automation-oreilly-radar
outlet: O'Reilly Radar
author: Timothy M. O'Brien
date: 2012-05-11
url: https://web.archive.org/web/2013/http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/jesse-robbins-infrastructure-automation.html
type: Article
excerpt: O'Reilly Radar interviewed me on Chef's evolution from open-source project to enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.
tags:
  - DevOps
  - Chef
  - Infrastructure Automation
  - Cloud Infrastructure
  - Opscode
---

Tim O'Brien interviewed me for O'Reilly Radar in May 2012, while I was Chief Community Officer at Opscode. We talked about Chef's evolution from a tool the early adopters loved into something enterprise customers were buying at scale, and about the broader shift toward treating infrastructure as code.

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