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This list of people / organizations using Chef is to help our community get to know each other better.

Please add an entry for yourself or your organization and include the following:

  • Organization/Person
  • Usage/implementation: A brief description of what you're using Chef to do.
  • IRC: If you use IRC, please include your nickname.
  • Twitter: If you use Twitter and don't mind some more followers.

Opscode

Who We wrote Chef! We eat our own dog food, too .
How We run our production infrastructure with Chef, obviously.
IRC nick(s) holoway, jtimberman, kallistec, skeptomai, jesserobbins, barrysteinglass, btmspox, schisamo, stephendelano, tomascz
Twitter @opscode, @jtimberman, @kallistec, @adamhjk, @raxmus, @jesserobbins, @skeptomai, @btmspox, @schisamo, @sdelano, @mattray, @timhin, @tmonk42, @nuoyan, @sfalcon, @tomasczt, @metaxis, @sarahnovoty, @stevedanna, @jesbourne, @someara, @kevsmith, @cwm, @Marc_Paradise, @mzyk83

ThoughtWorks

Who A company wholly devoted to the art and science of custom software. We make it, and we make our clients better at it. Our bottom line is to design and deliver software fast and predictably
How To manage our internal apps and infrastructure, to help our client doing continuous delivery
IRC nick(s) ranjibd
Twitter @RanjibDey, @AjeyGore

Runa

Who SaaS for Online Merchants, allows them to create dynamic promotions based on consumer interests and behavior
How We're working on our next gen (Chef 0.10.x / Hosted Chef) deployment of Hadoop/HBase, RabbitMQ, Redis, our Clojure based Swarmiji distributed processing cluster. We also use Rails for Merchant and Administrative dashboard. We've been using Chef since 0.8 alpha to deploy our infrastructure on Amazon EC2
IRC nick(s) rberger, sivajag, rathore
Twitter @rberger, @sivajag, @amitrathore

Cloudant

Who A database designed for the web
How Managing our infrastructure and deploying erlang apps with chef
IRC nick(s) joewilliams
Twitter @williamsjoe

Vaycay

Who Vacation Destination Planning
How Configuration of application, database, and caching servers to Rackspace Cloud.

Blue State Digital

Who Web site development, technology development and implementation and strategic campaign and program management services
How Installing and managing the various daemons and frameworks that make our Linux servers go, and provisioning new servers
Twitter @bsdwire

Peritor Scalarium

Who Cloud provisioning and deployment on Amazon EC2
How Configuring, managing and deploying the instance landscape for customers so they don't have to.
IRC nick(s) roidrage
Twitter @scalarium, @peritor, @roidrage, @jweiss

VersaPay

Who VersaPay offers everything you need to accept credit and debit card payments in person, on the go, on your website, and in the office
How Configure, manage, implement all aspects of systems infrastructure using Chef
IRC nick(s) mcarruthers
Twitter @versapay_tech @versapay @mdcarruthers

Flowdock

Who Flowdock is a team messenger for agile software developers.
How Configure, manage and deploy our complex technology stack (involving Ruby on Rails, Scala, Cassandra, ...)
IRC nick(s) Mutru
Twitter @flowdock @mutru

Evite

Who Evite is the premier social-planning website for creating, sending, and managing online invitations.
How (starting to) configure, manage and deploy our technology stack (involving Python/tornado, nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, ...)
IRC nick(s) ggheo
Twitter @griggheo

Socrata

Who Socrata provides a turn-key data publishing platform for government agencies, non-profits, and corporations.
How We use Chef to manage our production and staging environments across multiple datacenters.
IRC nick(s) natacado
Twitter @natacado

DevStructure

Who DevStructure makes smart development environments sold as a service that can figure out what you’ve done on your server and generate Chef cookbooks (shell scripts and Puppet manifests, too).
How Our development environments come stocked with out sandbox and blueprint utilities, which are also accessible via the web.
IRC rcrowley and zenmatt, usually found in #devstructure
Twitter @devstructure, @rcrowley, and @zenmatt

Reframe It

Who We wrote Reframe It, a tool that let's you comment on web sites.
How We're rearchitecting our system, and part of that effort is managing our infrastructure with Chef.
IRC nick(s) coshx, ajburton, usually available in #reframeit
Twitter @anthonyburton, @coshx

ZephirWorks

Who We are a boutique app development and devops shop targeting medium and large companies across Europe.
How We use Chef to help our customers (mostly in the publishing and telco markets) manage their servers; that includes writing custom cookbooks and certifying stock cookbooks on the different distros. Of course we also use it to manage our own infrastructure.
IRC nick(s) acampi
Twitter @andreacampi, @andreacgranata

ShopRun

Who We are a Tokyo-based SaaS, (the links are Japanese only FTM). ShopRun is a multi-tenant chain-store management service with a 100% uptime SLA.
How We manage an important chunk of our cloud infrastructure with Chef. We never directly ssh anymore!
Twitter @shoprun

Aframe

Who We're a collaborative video platform
How We run all of our infrastructure with Chef, and we love infrastructure-as-code.
IRC nick(s) jonlives
Twitter @aframehq, @jonlives

DataSift & TweetMeme

Who We're a realtime social data mining platform
How All of our development, staging and production servers are entirely managed by Chef. No way we could do it without it!
IRC nick(s) alexforrow, Gareth / NetworkString
Twitter @alexforrow , @NetworkString

GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

Who We're a major german public physics research institute
How We are adopting Infrastructure as Code to ramp up our computing centres including a large multi-application batch computing farm processing data from our local particle accelerator and from LHC.
IRC nick(s) Reverand

Heavywater Software

Who We manage infrastructure for small and medium-sized companies using Chef
How Relentless focus on automation, Hosted Chef, and building awesome teams.
IRC nick(s) dje, fujin_, slyness, luckymike, webframp,
Twitter @dje, @fujin_, @slyness, @luckymike, @webframp

Autodesk

Who We're a provider of 3D design software for a variety of discipliness such as architecture, engineering, and construction.
How We're adopting Chef to deploy our infrastructure which supports Autodesk Cloud Services.
IRC nick(s) stphung
Twitter @stphung



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