Chef (company)
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| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
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Key people
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Barry Crist (CEO), Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Jez Humble |
| Products | Chef |
| Website | www |
Chef is an American corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, which produces software allowing information technology departments to automate the process in which they configure, deploy and scale servers and applications.
The Chef software is used to streamline the task of configuring & maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Rackspace and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically provision and configure new machines.
About 70% of Chef’s clients come from Fortune 1000 companies, including major organizations like Facebook, Nordstrom, Disney, and General Electric.
The company was founded as Opscode in 2008 by current Chief Technology Officer Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins, Barry Steinglass, and Nathan Haneysmith. Chef is based in Seattle, with regional offices in Berlin, London, and San Francisco. Chef is a venture funded company, as of Sep 2015 Chef is valued at $360 million after a $40 million funding round.
In November 2015, the company acquired a German security startup, VulcanoSec.
Chef offers a single commercial product, Chef Automate, released at ChefConf in July 2016. Chef Automate includes a full-stack continuous deployment pipeline, automated testing for compliance and security, and visibility into everything that's happening with Chef-managed resources.
Chef Automate builds on two of Chef's open source projects - Chef and InSpec - and integrates with the company's third open source project, Habitat. Habitat offers "application automation" to simplify running complex applications in different environments including containers, traditional data servers, or PaaS. According to Wired Magazine, this new software "Makes Code Work Like Biology".
Chef maintains three open source projects - Chef, InSpec, and Habitat.
Chef offers three versions of its product: Chef Basics (free, open source), Hosted Chef ($72/node, minimum 20 node purchase), and Chef Automate ($137/node, annual subscription). The paid versions offer varying degrees of free trial and a range of features and support benefits. More info at https://www.chef.io/pricing/
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