Another week, another tale of some Awesome Chefs in our Community doing big things with Chef . This time, the story comes from right here in Opscode's backyard of Seattle. Meteor Entertainment , which publishes free-to-play games globally, with an emphasis on community engagement, needed to scale out hundreds of Amazon EC2 servers to deliver HAWKEN (which rocks , btw), its highly anticipated, free-to-play online game that went …
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It's been an eventful February here at Opscode. As many of you know, on February 4 th , we announced that Facebook is using Private Chef to automate the configuration and management of its web-tier infrastructure. That's some hefty validation of Chef at dramatic scale.
Then, this week, both Amazon Web Services ( AWS) and Opscode announced that Opscode Chef is the automation engine for AWS' new application management solution OpsWorks.
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More customer awesomeness today , this time from our friends at Getaroom , who make finding the best rates on hotels anywhere in the world fast and easy. Getaroom has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration management for the Amazon EC2 infrastructure powering their popular travel service, achieving a mean time to new compute capacity of less than 30 minutes and eliminating nearly all risk of system failure.
Radical.
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We've been posting a lot of cool news today and now it's time for a bit more... Our friends at Cycle Computing helped test the scale of the new Chef 11 last week, creating a 10K+ server instance (10,598 servers, to be exact) in AWS using only a single Chef 11 server.
The results? Dynamite.
In short, Cycle Computing 's utility supercomputing software identified potential leads against a cancer target for a Big 10 Pharma…
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Yes, that's right, folks, Facebook , one of the largest infrastructures on the planet, has deployed Opscode Private Chef™ to automate configuration and management within its web-tier infrastructure.
Why did Facebook need Chef?
Because Facebook's infrastructure team has to manage thousands of servers, configurations, and administrative access policies across a very dynamic compute environment.
Why did Facebook choose Chef?
Phil Dibowitz, production engineer at Facebook, explains:
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It's a really big day here at Opscode, and when I say big, I mean "10K nodes from one Chef server" big... "automating tens of thousands of servers" big... or, as our CTO Christopher Brown says, " Carl Sagan big."
Let me explain why:
1) Chef 11 is now available for free download! Re-written from the ground up and leveraging best-of-breed infrastructure technologies including the Erlang programming …
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Following on the heels of our last blog on customer goodness , this time we're profiling a company who many of you may already be familiar with - Prezi . Prezi provides an ‘open canvas' that helps more than 17 million users better communicate their ideas. The company's zooming presentation software lets users choose between the cloud, the desktop, or the iPad or iPhone, providing an innovative communication tool wherever you need it.
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We're getting 2013 started right with yet another story of Opscode Chef customer awesomeness. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. They're also using Hosted Chef to do some pretty rockin' things with their infrastructure.
Within Wharton Computing, small IT teams are responsible for supporting a wide range …
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Over and over again, we encounter Chef users working within Amazon EC2 environments. The proliferation of AWS continues to grow six years into its existence with no signs of slowing. Not to mention increasing competition from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many others.
But how did AWS begin?
Well, according to our own CTO Christopher Brown , one of the original engineers of EC2, the inception of AWS involved a press release. Yes, a press release.
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More customer goodness today : Our friends at Message Bus , pioneers in cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, are using Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate configuration, environment and application management across the multiple cloud IaaS providers powering the company's innovative service.
What is Message Bus's service exactly? Well, in short, the Message Bus Global Delivery Network is a cloud-native …
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