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