Chef is an infrastructure automation framework with open source and enterprise versions, founded in 2008 as Opscode. It helps companies with configuration management, continuous delivery, and DevOps. Chef has received $65 million in total funding and seen strong growth, and its enterprise products like Chef for Windows provide solutions for cloud management and code deployment.

1. Chef
Noah Katzman

2. Products
● Infrastructure Automation Framework
● Two Levels:
○ Open Source Chef
○ Enterprise Chef
■ Private
■ Hosted

3. Solutions
● Enterprise Solutions
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Chef for Windows
Cloud Management
Coded Business
Configuration Management
Continuous Delivery
DevOps
Professional Services

4. Financials
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Series D Funding: $32M
Total Funding: $65M
Company sales grew 188%
Open source community grew > 200%
● Private Chef - $6 per node
● Hosted Chef - $6 per node per month

5. History
● Founded in 9/2008 as Opscode
● In 12/2013
○ Renamed company to Chef (main product)
○ Hired high-profile execs for enterprise focus
○ Received series D funding

6. Interesting
● Chef11 rebuilt from the ground up
○ moved from Ruby to Erlang
● Because of demands of Facebook/others
● One chef server can manage 10,000 nodes
○ 4x Chef10

7. Secret Sauce
● Open Source community
● Publicly available cookbooks
● Chef Conference every year

8. Story
● Worked with Chef this past summer
● Continuous Deployment process
● My code is in production :)

9. Competition
● Puppet Labs
● SaltStack
● AnsibleWorks

10. Predictions
● Facebook, Amazon, Google rely on
infrastructure automation with Chef
● Fortune 1000 companies making IT changes
● The future is heating up for Chef