Chef - A Quality Product to Automate Your Application Deployments
February 12, 2021
Chef - A Quality Product to Automate Your Application Deployments
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Chef Effortless Infrastructure Suite
Modules Used
- Chef Infra
- Chef InSpec
Overall Satisfaction with Chef, from Progress
Chef is available across our enterprise and is used by certain applications. It provides a framework for our development teams to use that can create repeatable infrastructure through automated application deployments.
Pros
- Excellent customer support
- Broad user community
- ChefConf is an excellent conference
Cons
- It remains to be seen how Chef evolves after being acquired by Progress
- The Chef technology itself for cookbook development has a not-insignificant learning curve due to how powerful it is
- Chef has greatly helped out company's effort to adopt the public cloud
Chef is the more developer-oriented of the three main tools in this space. It has a steeper learning curve as a result but it allows you to do more. Puppet seems to be more geared towards automated the management of the operating system. Ansible is an excellent tool but requires you to allow SSH connectivity into all of your instances.
Do you think Progress Chef delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Progress Chef's feature set?
Yes
Did Progress Chef live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Progress Chef go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Progress Chef again?
Yes
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