Chef is changing how companies build and deliver applications, services and infrastructure. Born with the DevOps movement, Chef has distilled the experiences of successful web innovators into patterns that characterize the DevOps work ow. These patterns have been incorporated into Chef’s comprehensive suite of automation products, making Chef your partner on the journey to DevOps. Alaska Airlines, Bloomberg, Facebook, Intuit, Microsoft, Target, and Yahoo are among hundreds of commercial customers worldwide using Chef to safely deliver applications, compliance policies, and infrastructure at velocity. The most enduring and transformative companies use Chef to become fast, efficient, and innovative software-driven organizations (taken from the chef press page)