Chef (company)
 Chef is an American corporation headquartered in Seattle Washington which produces software allowing information technology departments to automate the process in which they configure deploy and scale servers and applications.Chef (software) is used to streamline the task of configuring & maintaining a company's servers and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Rackspace and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to automatically provision and configure new machines.About 70% of Chef’s clients come from Fortune 1000 companies including major organizations like Facebook Nordstrom Disney and General Electric.The company was founded as Opscode in 2009 by Jesse Robbins and current Chief Dev Officer Adam Jacob. 