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 ...

A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress. Learn about its features, pricing, and benefits. Chef (aka Progress Chef) is a configuration management tool that helps organizations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Clearly 'Puppet vs Chef' is a debate which will run and run - I've addressed some of the divisions between the two projects in my article Puppet vs Chef: 10 reasons Puppet wins. It's clear from the ...

How does Facebook manage its ever-growing plethora of servers, configurations, administrative access policies, and the other tasks that go along with its volumes of data? Part of that answer now lies ...