"Infrastructure Automation"

Jesse Robbins on the State of Infrastructure Automation

O'Reilly Radar interviews Jesse Robbins on how Chef grew from an open-source project into enterprise infrastructure automation, and where cloud operations was headed next.

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.”