Chef is a configuration management tool, and I work for the product team of Chef. All the DevOps teams mainly use Chef for configuration management of their servers or infrastructure.
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Devope value - configure, deploy, manage
What do you like best about the product?
Optimize app delivery at any stage. It helps to optimize the performance and usage of applications in mobile devices and in the development
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer support is a bit hectic process. It's not easy to get in touch with the customer service
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration and deployment of application
It is genuine and works absolutely fine , must try once
What do you like best about the product?
Best vision report and it is very easy to elaborate the things
What do you dislike about the product?
These nothing such negatives about the progress chef
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to maintain company servers and easy to config the work schedules
DevOps tool To manage E2E operation and Build quality
What do you like best about the product?
It's an open source
powerful automation tool
Chef is a configuration management tool used in DevOps
automation testing with codless
CI/CD with open-source tool such as Jmeter
powerful automation tool
Chef is a configuration management tool used in DevOps
automation testing with codless
CI/CD with open-source tool such as Jmeter
What do you dislike about the product?
looking for better exe
codeless CI/CD for automation and performance testing
codeless CI/CD for automation and performance testing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have done an POC for building end-to-end automation feature for one of our Direct tax application and it helped in doing CI/CD
Progress Chef is a Game-Changer for Cloud Infrastructure Automation
What do you like best about the product?
I love Chef's robust automation and flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
The steep learning curve and initial setup can be challenging.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Progress Chef solves configuration management and automation problems, streamlining infrastructure deployment and updates. This benefits me by reducing manual errors, ensuring consistency across environments, and saving time on repetitive tasks.
Easy Integration and Configuration
What do you like best about the product?
It is very wel written configuration management tool and very good to have for writing system configurations. It can very easily integrate with cloud based platforms.The best part is we can run it in client/server mode
What do you dislike about the product?
Written in pure domain specific Ruby language which can be difficult sometimes for users who don't know much about this language
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating the provision and configurations of new machines
to setup enterprise infra i worked with chef
What do you like best about the product?
writing cookbooks, support is good. community and ecosystem,
integrations.
integrations.
What do you dislike about the product?
pull mechanism little bit painful, versioning and roll back issue
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chef automates the process of configuring and managing infrastructure components, we used to handle enterprise-level infra code with compliance
I have such a great experience to use the same.
What do you like best about the product?
Progress Chef sounds like a fascinating concept! It seems like a tool or platform designed to help individuals or businesses in the culinary field track their progress and improve their skills. I think what I'd like best about it is the potential for continuous growth and learning it offers. Being able to see your progress over time and identify areas for improvement can be incredibly motivating and helpful in mastering any skill, including cooking.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of now. As it's covered all required features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It awesome tool which help to automate infra, CI/CD and cloud compliances.
Best experience
What do you like best about the product?
It automate the configaration management of our server very efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Little complex to setup and need some programming language.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using chef in our organization to automate configaration management.
Chef for all your DevScOps needs - Love TestKitchen
What do you like best about the product?
TestKitchen to test everyrecipe before deploying, manages hugs scale, stability Infra server provides and Inspec 6 parallel scan feature
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be better for Windows clients, Chef automate should be easier to install
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manages huge RHEL7 fleet, scans using inspec profiles and reporing in Automate.
The solution can be used by people who want to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code.
What needs improvement?
Chef does not support the containerized things of Chef products. In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Chef for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Chef a nine out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Thousands of customers are using the solution.
I rate Chef a nine out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support team is really good, and you can directly contact them regarding any issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup for clients is very easy, but it is moderate for the infra server. The solution's documentation is very good, and its installation can be done in 15 to 20 minutes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Chef is priced based on the number of nodes.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate Chef a nine out of ten.
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