{"id":6866,"date":"2011-06-14T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2011-06-14T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T19:10:17","slug":"opscode1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/06\/14\/opscode1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Opscode 1.0 &#8211; Brief Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/5762859547\/\" title=\"Just announced: the @mattray office cloud, preview - by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2657\/5762859547_986324c05a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Just announced: the @mattray office cloud, preview -\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Opscode GA&#8217;s its offerings. It&#8217;s time for it to start some automation knife fighting.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opscode.com\">Opscode<\/a>, the commercial company around the automation project <a href=\"http:\/\/opscode.com\/chef\/\">Chef<\/a>, had a bundle of what I&#8217;d call &#8220;1.0&#8221; announcements today: firming up their product offering<b>s<\/b> for general availability:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;ve fully baked their hosted Chef suite, renaming it <a href=\"http:\/\/opscode.com\/press-releases\/opscode-announces-general-availability-of-hosted-chef\/\">Opscode Hosted Chef (n&eacute;e Opscode Platform)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opscode.com\/press-releases\/opscode-unveils-private-chef-for-the-enterprise\/\">They released Opscode Private Chef<\/a> for all those folks who can&#8217;t stomach running their automation suite in the cloud.<\/li>\n<li>You can also see them staking out a claim in the next generation IT management space with <a href=\"http:\/\/opscode.com\/press-releases\/opscode-delivers-cloud-infrastructure-automation-to-the-enterprise\/\">their &#8220;Cloud Infrastructure Automation&#8221; term<\/a>, used to describe running IT in a cloud-centric and inspired way, e.g., by using Chef.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opscode.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/chef-hearts-windows\/\">there&#8217;s Windows support<\/a>, which is sort of a minority interest <i>at the moment<\/i> but damn fine to start hammering out now.<\/p>\n<h2>But does anyone care?<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of momentum for Opscode as their numbers-porn slide shows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cote-media.redmonk.com\/cote\/files\/2012\/06\/opscode-numbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6868\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Segment Context &amp; Such<\/h2>\n<p>Indeed, I continue to see interest in Chef, particularly from developers and ISV types &#8211; see their Crowbar partnership with Dell, putting together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/03\/08\/your-very-own-openstack-cloud-quick-analysis\/\">OpenStack, Chef, and Dell hardware for quick-clouds on the cheap<\/a>. Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/06\/14\/calxeda_arm_server_software_partners\/\">the small Opscode partnering mention in <i>El Reg&#8217;s<\/i> piece on Calxeda today<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to hear more interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puppetlabs.com\">Puppet<\/a> from IT types (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/02\/07\/puppet-enterprise\/\">see coverage of their offering here<\/a>), something the Private Chef offering might help address. IT folks have been skittish about using cloud for <i>their<\/i> software, and, why not? As one admin told me last year, &#8220;well, if the Internet goes down, I&#8217;m dead in the water,&#8221; he has no tools. And, despite the fact that you&#8217;re probably dead in the water in all cases where &#8220;the Internet goes down&#8221; and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/05\/23\/know11-trip-notes\/\">ServiceNow seems to be doing just fine<\/a>, that&#8217;s some FUD that doesn&#8217;t deserve much scorn.<\/p>\n<p>On the broader front, I&#8217;m still not seeing much regard from the traditional automation vendors for these model-driven automation up-starts, Chef and Puppet. But they <em>should<\/em> be paying attention more: both are classic &#8220;fixing a moribund category that sucks&#8221; strategies that seem to be actually working in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/06\/02\/how-to-do-cloud-marketing\/\">removing The Suck by focusing on speed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Downloadable PoCs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/5373393005\/\" title=\"Matt Ray's OpenStack box in the works by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5167\/5373393005_5e240029fb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Matt Ray's OpenStack box in the works\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re on the other end of the stick &#8211; buying and\/or using automation software &#8211; checking out these new approaches is definitely worth your time. The reports are sounding similar to the early days of open source, where the CIO is stuck in multi-month PoCs and license renewals, while a passionate admin somewhere just downloads Puppet or Chef, does a quick-n-dirty PoC, and then gets clearance to take more time to consider these whacky, new methods.<\/p>\n<h2>More<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/06\/22\/opscode\/\">My coverage of the initial, beta launch of <s>The Opscode Platform<\/s>Opscode Hosted Chef<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/14\/opscode-eyes-enterprise-clouds-with-private-chef\/\">Rich Miller&#8217;s coverage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/cloud\/opscode-gets-chef-cooking-for-the-enterprise\/\">Stacey Higginbotham over at GigaOm write it up<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/cloud\/2011\/06\/automated-vm-provisioning-with.php\">David Strom at RWW covers another Opscode item, their QuickStart bundles of common stacks<\/a> &#8211; more developer targeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Opscode and ServiceNow are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opscode GA&#8217;s its offerings. 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