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 ...

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 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 ...

We explore some of the best configuration management tools and software for DevOps. Learn about their pricing, features, benefits and more. A review of the configuration management tool, Chef Progress ...

I design and build ethical hacking capture-the-flag scenarios at a small security shop. Our clients operate the infrastructure (all ESXi/vCenter), and we deliver the OVAs (the game "content" and the ...