{"id":15783,"date":"2015-07-09T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=229651"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:34:14","slug":"aws-and-chef-cook-up-devops-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/aws-and-chef-cook-up-devops-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS and Chef cook up DevOps deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_166961\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/12\/Automation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-166961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/12\/Automation-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Chef is moving onto the AWS Marketplace\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef is moving onto the AWS Marketplace<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>IT automation specialist Chef and AWS announced a deal this week that would see Chef\u2019s flagship offering offered via the AWS Marketplace, a move the companies said would help drive DevOps cloud uptake.<\/p>\n<p>Tools like Chef and Puppet Labs, which use an intermediary service to help automate a company\u2019s infrastructure, have grown increasingly popular with DevOps personnel in recent years \u2013 particularly given not just the growth but heterogeneity of cloud today. And with DevOps continuing to grow \u2013 by 2016 nearly a quarter of the largest enterprises globally will have adopted a DevOps strategy according to Gartner \u2013 it\u2019s clear both AWS and Chef see a huge opportunity to onboard more users to the former\u2019s cloud service.<\/p>\n<p>As one might expect, the companies touted the ability to use Chef to migrate workloads off premise and into the AWS without losing all of the code developed to automate lower level services.<\/p>\n<p>Though Chef and Puppet Labs can both be deployed on and automate AWS cloud resources the Chef \/ AWS deal will see it gain one-click deployment and a more prominent placement in its catalogue of available services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chef is one of the leading offerings for DevOps workflows, which engineers and developers depend on to accelerate their businesses,\u201d said Dave McCann, vice president, AWS Marketplace. \u201cOur customers want easy-to-use software like Chef that is available for immediate purchase and deployment in AWS Marketplace. This new partnership demonstrates our focus on offering low-friction DevOps tools to power customers\u2019 businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ken Cheney, vice president of business development at Chef said: \u201cAWS\u2019s market leadership in cloud computing, coupled with our expertise in IT automation and DevOps practices, brings a new level of capabilities to our customers. Together, we\u2019re delivering a single source for automation, cloud, and DevOps, so businesses everywhere can spend minimal calories on managing infrastructure and maximise their ability to develop the software driving today\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT automation specialist Chef and AWS announced a deal this week that would see Chef&rsquo;s flagship offering offered via the AWS Marketplace, a move the companies said would help drive DevOps cloud uptake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1472,2936,1993,2937,2938,1976,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws","category-chef","category-dave-mccann","category-infrastructure-as-a-service","category-it-automation","category-ken-cheney","category-news-analysis","category-vendor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15784,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15783\/revisions\/15784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}