Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation
O'Reilly Radar by Timothy M. O'Brien · · Article
Tim O'Brien interviewed me at the moment Chef was making the transition from a tool the early adopters loved to something the enterprise was buying at scale. The interview captures the strategic question that defined that period: how do you grow without losing the practitioners who made the project work in the first place.
This is part of the longer arc of the Opscode era. We were figuring out, in public, what it meant to build a company around an open-source practice.
Jesse Robbins, Opscode’s Chief Community Officer, discusses the state of cloud infrastructure automation. The interview covers Chef’s evolution from a tool for startups into an enterprise platform, and the broader shift toward treating infrastructure as code.