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Luke got a good amount of adoption early on. Chef actually only started as a response to Puppet about two years ago when Opscode's original company, HJK Solutions decided they didn't want to have to pay for Puppet support.

The main advantage to opscode I see is that Chef does a better job of marketing and hype generation.

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As one of the founders of Opscode, and of Chef, it's crazy to say that the reason we started Chef was because we didn't want to buy a support contract.

We have no beef with Puppet - from our experience building fully automated infrastructures at scale, it wasn't the tool we wanted (and it still isn't,) so we built Chef - the tool we wanted. It turns out it's also the tool lots of other people wanted, and we're incredibly proud of it.

There is nothing dirty here, no matter how much the internet wishes it to be so.

That's true about hype and marketing. Including spamming #puppet channel trying to divert people to chef when they come asking for help.

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