Chef configuration management tools automate the packaging and provisioning of software into an organization's operational IT environment. They are powerful tools that have a vibrant, active community ...

Opscode's Chef packs the power of Ruby and plentiful Cookbooks, but lacks features and polish found in other solutions Among the various configuration management frameworks available today, Opscode’s ...

Chef Habitat is a one-year-old application configuration management project, designed to extend in a different direction from Chef's main focus by separating the application from infrastructure ...

When it comes to keeping its thousands of servers running smoothly, Facebook relies on the open source Chef configuration manager, modified slightly to handle the size of the social networking giant’s ...

Opscode has teamed up with Cisco Systems and Arista Networks to add networking features and has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to broaden Windows integration for its renamed Enterprise Chef ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

Ten years ago, there were only two choices for provisioning and configuration management: CFEngine and IBM Tivoli. Neither solution was up to the challenges of the cloud or even the virtualized data ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...