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Attribute Ratings
- Azure DevOps Services is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
Azure DevOps Services
88%
56 Ratings

8.1
Chef Infra
81%
17 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Azure DevOps Services
100%
3 Ratings

Chef Infra
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
7.1
Azure DevOps Services
71%
5 Ratings

Chef Infra
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance
Azure DevOps Services
N/A
0 Ratings

9.4
Chef Infra
94%
10 Ratings
Support Rating
8.4
Azure DevOps Services
84%
20 Ratings

7.2
Chef Infra
72%
5 Ratings
Implementation Rating
10.0
Azure DevOps Services
100%
2 Ratings

Chef Infra
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure DevOps Services
[Azure DevOps Services (formerly VSTS)] is well suited for agile teams. It is a digital kanban for teams to access anywhere at any time. Especially during covid when most companies are still remote, it allows teams to fully perform and still be functional in operating within an agile methodology. It also gives visibility to teams capacity.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 1001-5000 employeesChef Infra
Chef is a fantastic tool for automating software deployments that aren't able to be containerized. It's more developer-oriented than its other competitors and thus allows you to do more with it. The Chef Infra Server software is rock-solid and has been extremely stable in our experience. I would definitely recommend its use if you're looking for an automation framework. And it also offers InSpec which is a very good tool for testing your infrastructure to ensure it deployed as intended.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Azure DevOps Services
- Flexible Requirements Hierarchy Management: AZDO makes it easy to track items such as features or epics as a flat list, or as a hierarchy in which you can track the parent-child relationship.
- Fast Data Entry: AZDO was designed to facilitate quick data entry to capture work items quickly, while still enabling detailed capture of acceptance criteria and item properties.
- Excel Integration: AZDO stands out for its integration with MS Excel, which enables quick updates for bulk items.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employeesChef Infra
- Chef is great at deploying code to both small and large groups of servers.
- We use chef to standup new servers as well as deploy updated code to existing servers and it does this very well.
- Being able to make a change and have it push manually or automatically to any subset of servers has changed the landscape of how our IT teams operate.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employeesCons
Azure DevOps Services
- Column sorting when in filtered states.
- A way to show cross-team dependencies.
- A customized "From" field for notifications. Sometimes when a mail comes from Azure DevOps the teams do not realize that I am sending it
- A way to do online poker that doesn't require a plug-in.
Product Owner
Development Dimensions InternationalHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees
Chef Infra
- Chef could do a better job with integration with other DevOps tools. Our company relies on Jenkins and Ansible, which took some development and convincing for plug-ins to be created/available.
- It would be nice if kitchen didn't only have a vagrant/virtual-box prerequisite. Our company one day stop allowing virtual-box to run without special privileges, and that caused a lot of issues for people trying to do kitchen tests.
- Chef could use more practice materials for the advanced certification badges. There was not a lot of guidance in what to study or examples of certain topics.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Azure DevOps Services
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$2 per GB (first 2GB free)
Azure DevOps Services Editions & Modules
Edition
Basic Plan | $61 |
---|---|
Basic + Test Plan | $522 |
Azure Artifacts | $23 |
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted | $404 |
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted | $155 |
- per user per month (first 5 users free)
- per user per month
- per GB (first 2GB free)
- per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
- per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)
Additional Pricing Details
—Chef Infra
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Chef Infra Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 10.0
Based on 3 answers
I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.
Business Analyst
InnovaSystems International, LLCComputer Software, 201-500 employees
Chef Infra
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 7.1
Based on 5 answers
Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.
Technical Lead
Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Chef Infra
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Azure DevOps Services
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Chef Infra
Chef Infra 9.4
Based on 10 answers
It loads quick enough for basically all our systems. Because we have this for local dev environments, speed isn't really a big issue here. Yes, depending on the system, sometimes it does take a relatively long time, but it's not an issue for me. One thing that is annoying is that if I want to make a small change to a cookbook and re-run the Chef client, I can't just make the change in the cache and run it. I have to do the whole process of updating the server.
Enterprise Software Architect
Latham Pool Products IncBuilding Materials, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 8.4
Based on 20 answers
When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Architecture & Planning Company, 1001-5000 employeesChef Infra
Chef Infra 7.2
Based on 5 answers
Support for Chef is easily available for fee or through the open source community as most the issues you will face will have been addressed through the Chef developer community forums. The documentation for Chef is moderate to great and easily readable.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 51-200 employeesImplementation Rating
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps Services 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Was not part of the process.

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesChef Infra
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps is much easier to implement and use on a daily basis than VersionOne. This is based on end-user feedback and my personal experience as well. ADO has more features and seems to get updated more frequently than VersionOne as well. VersionOne is less expensive overall than ADO, but our company prefers to use ADO because it has a lot more benefits.
Senior Network Administrator
University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees
Chef Infra
We considered the three leading competitors in the field: Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Ansible is a very strong competitor and has a nice degree of flexibility in that it does not require a client install. Instead the configuration is delivered by SSH which is very simple. Puppet seems like it has fallen off the pace of the competition and lacked the strong community offered by Chef. We chose Chef because of the strong support by the company and the dynamic and deep community support.
Senior Vice President Of Product Development
RizingInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Azure DevOps Services
- It provides a great IDE to make things easier, clear, and compact. It has always been a positive ROI
- It's worth the money. I don't think any other software could replace the VS. It has helped us a lot to making things ready on time
- The only thing I dislike is that it takes a lot of memory space when in an idle state
VLSI TEST ENGINEER
Tessolve Services Pvt. Ltd.Semiconductors, 1001-5000 employees
Chef Infra
- Chef is a good tool for baselining servers. It will be a good ROI when there are huge number of servers. For less number of servers maintaining a master will be an over head.
- One good ROI will be that the Operations Team also gets into agile and DevOps methodologies. Operational teams can start writing scripts/automations to keep their infra more stable and their application stack more reliable.
- Implementation of Chef eliminates the manual mode of doing things and everyone aligns to automation mind set. It helps in change of culture.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees