If every business is now a software business, as the saying goes, then many companies might benefit by automating their routines for creating and updating the software that keeps them in business.

A new product from the open source configuration management software provider Chef, called Chef Delivery, is designed to create automated workflows around enterprise-level software development, establishing a pipeline from creation to production.

The company developed the new product with the help of a number of its customers.

“Over time, we have a discovered a clear set of success patterns that allows our customers to move fast, and we have distilled those patterns in the new product,” said Jay Wampold, Chef vice president of marketing. Chef’s core software has been used by a large number of organizations, including Bloomberg, Disney, Facebook, Intuit, Nordstrom, Target and Yahoo.

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