Private Chef

A highly available, fully managed and supported automation environment - behind the firewall

The power and speed of Opscode. The freedom and flexibility of Chef. Completely customized for your business. No matter how complex the realities of your business, Private Chef makes it easy to deploy servers and scale applications throughout your entire infrastructure. Because it combines the fundamental elements of configuration management and service oriented architectures with the full power of Ruby, Private Chef makes it easy to create a fully automated infrastructure.

You’ll have total control of your infrastructure and your data, as well as a team of experts at your service, leading you through every infrastructure automation challenge.

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About the Free Trial

What operating systems are supported?

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 (including CentOS)
  • Ubuntu 10.04
  • Ubuntu 11.04

Running on x86_64 hardware.

What are the minimum system requirements?

  • 4 total cores, 2.0 GHz AMD 41xx/61xx CPUs or faster
  • 4 GB of RAM
  • 5 GB of free disk space in /opt
  • 5 GB of free disk space in /var

How do I install the Private Chef?

Go to our Private Chef documentation site and follow the Standalone installation instructions.

What does support cover for the free trial?

60 days of e-mail based installation support, 8am to 5pm Monday through Friday, Pacific Standard time. Support covers the Standalone Private Chef topology only. If you are interested in testing the more robust topologies supported by Private Chef, let your Sales Representative know, and we'll happily accomodate you.

FAQ

What is it?

Opscode takes our expertise running the worlds largest hosted automation platform, couples it with your specific usage requirements, and delivers to you an enterprise software solution with 24/7/365 support and implementation consulting, installed as enterprise software behind the corporate firewall.

Who is it for?

Private Chef is for Enterprises who want the power, flexibility, availability, and performance of Hosted Chef, but require that information never leave their private networks.

How is it priced?

Each installation of Private Chef is sized according to the requirements of the customer, and therefore pricing is customized as well. The price is composed of:

  • A one-time installation fee
  • An on-going service contract
  • One of our standard support contracts

How is it managed?

Opscode handles keeping Private Chef up to date with the same features as Hosted Chef, and ensures each installation is performing adequately.

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What you get

  • Faster
    Spend your time fixing your problems, not setting up your automation.
  • Bigger
    Built to your capacity needs - from 5 to 50,000 servers.
  • Smarter
    Infrastructure awareness provides automatic discovery of thousands of valuable data-points.
  • Safer
    Centrally managed role-based access controls and data-encryption.
  • Real
    You hold the blueprint for your infrastructure - rebuild it where, and when, you need.
  • Supported
    Managed API updates make upgrades a breeze. Active monitoring and 24x7x365 support options give you the confidence to run mission-critical systems.

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Hear in their own words how Hosted Chef helps companies of all shapes and sizes solve their most complex problems.

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