Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation

O'Reilly Radar by Timothy M. O'Brien · · Article

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Tim O'Brien's O'Reilly Radar interview on Chef's move from early adopters to enterprise buyers, and the practitioner-tension that growth created.

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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DevOps Chef Infrastructure Automation Cloud Infrastructure

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