Chef Users List

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
Twitter	@opscode, @jtimberman, @adamhjk, @raxmus, @jesserobbins, @skeptomai

Runa

Who	SaaS for Online Merchants, allows them to create dynamic promotions based on consumer interests and behavior
How	We're just getting started using Chef to deploy Hadoopo/HBase, Rails, and our Clojure based Swarmiji Cluster. All on Amazon EC2 right now
IRC nick(s)	rberger, sivajag, mudphone, rathore_
Twitter	@rberger

Cloudant

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

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