"Infrastructure as Code"

Jesse Robbins on the Rise of DevOps (InfoQ Interview)

Jesse Robbins talks with InfoQ about how DevOps started, why infrastructure as code changed operations, and what it actually takes to get developers and ops teams working together.

Jesse Robbins Discusses DevOps and Cloud Computing

Jez Humble interviews Jesse Robbins on DevOps, continuous delivery, measuring operations maturity, and infrastructure as code with Chef. Part of a Thoughtworks series with Eric Ries, Elizabeth Hendrickson, and John Allspaw.

5 Pivotal Documents in the Evolution of the DevOps Movement

DevOpsANGLE picks five documents that shaped the DevOps movement, including Jesse Robbins's 'Operations is a competitive advantage' post and his GameDay talk describing the preconditions to DevOps at Amazon.

Puppet, Chef Ease Transition to Cloud Computing

BusinessWeek's 2011 cloud infrastructure feature placed Opscode and Chef at the center of the enterprise cloud transition, covering how open-source tools were bringing operational practices from Google and Amazon to every company.

“The custom tools built by Google, Amazon, and some other guys were such closely guarded secrets. Our founding thesis was to open up these tools to everyone else.”

Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef

The Register profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.

Operations Is a Competitive Advantage (Secret Sauce for Startups!)

The post that started it all. Jesse Robbins argues on O'Reilly Radar that operations is a competitive advantage and occasionally a strategic weapon. Luke Kanies introduces him to Adam Jacob in the comments. The rest is history.