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Chef reviews
What do you like best about the product?
The vast variety of receipies in the community. Almost every tool installation has their own recipe. And easy management of central store for receipies.
What do you dislike about the product?
The configuration tree for the receipe can be bit less complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing multiple organisations in a single chef server .
Best server management tool
What do you like best about the product?
I was in deployment department so for every software I need to configure all server manuall like supponse you have many servers that time you don't need to configure you all server just only update on workstation then it will update on all servers another thing is some times yon need to change you ENV variable so that time you can't run you dockesr image for all server instead of these just replace value by suing chef is another best part also for CI/DC part is best
What do you dislike about the product?
Here is nothing for dislike, but If they provide us containerization with server configuration like dockers with chef that time it will really easy to handle and many people will switch on this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had one project in which we white label all things and deployed code on a different server for every client, so at that time, I needed to deploy code on 24 servers, and 70% of work for all servers were the same that time the first time I used chef and It reduced my working time from 2 weeks to 2 days and some time clint give updated information about his env like SMTP or third party URL so that time chef really helpfull
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want both CI/CD and server configuration in good manner that time use chef
Chef Review
What do you like best about the product?
Its very good tool to setup configuration management
What do you dislike about the product?
its a agent based tool thats why we need to install agent everytiem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are doing configuration management using the chef
Recommendations to others considering the product:
yes i always recommended chef to use for CI/CD
Easy to deploy with Chef
What do you like best about the product?
We have build the scripts which makes it very easy to deploy with Chef.
What do you dislike about the product?
If something goes wrong its not easy to debug
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All our deployments are with Chef now.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it.
Cooking with infrastructure as code
What do you like best about the product?
Once you're familiar with Chef, it's a very powerful tool for ensuring that your servers are all provisioned in the exact same way, and committing those choices to source control. There is a fairly active open source, and a lot of community cookbooks already exist for common tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reasonably challenging to get up and running with, especially if you aren't coming from a Ruby background. The documentation lags somewhat and I occasionally found myself digging into source code to understand a behavior.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating and standardizing server configuration. Reducing the number of errors that arise from server configuration drift.
A workhorse for deployment and configuration
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to manage multiple environments easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
The domain specific language has a couple of small quirks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used this to manage all of the hosts configurations and applications that we deployed. It was used for all aspects to manage log locations, configurations, and even some kernel level configurations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
https://docs.chef.io/ is your friend! The domain specific language (DSL) can be very hard at times especially for those coming from a non-Ruby programming back-ground.
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