Chef, is the leader in DevOps, driving collaboration through code to automate infrastructure, security, compliance and applications. Chef provides a single path to production making it faster and safer to add value to applications and meet the demands of the customer. Deployed broadly in production by the Global 5000 and used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Chef develops 100 percent of its software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no restrictions on its use. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™, a commercial distribution, is developed solely from that open source code and unifies security, compliance, infrastructure and application automation with observability. Chef provides an unequaled developer experience for the Coded Enterprise by enabling users to express infrastructure, security policies and the application lifecycle as code, modernizing development, packaging and delivery of any application to any platform. For more information, visit http://chef.io and follow @chef.
Product | Market Share (%) |
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Chef | 2.1% |
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 16.6% |
Microsoft Configuration Manager | 11.8% |
Other | 69.5% |
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Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
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Microsoft Azure DevOps | 4.1 | N/A | 95% | 135 interviewsAdd to research |
Microsoft Configuration Manager | 4.1 | 11.8% | 91% | 83 interviewsAdd to research |
Chef offers flexible pricing based on infrastructure size and specific requirements. Users report costs typically start from $137 per node annually. Custom enterprise contracts may offer volume discounts. Additional fees apply for premium support and training. This makes Chef suitable for scalable and complex environments, providing robust automation capabilities.
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 2 |
Midsize Enterprise | 7 |
Large Enterprise | 9 |
Company Size | Count |
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Small Business | 41 |
Midsize Enterprise | 27 |
Large Enterprise | 102 |
Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
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DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 3.5 | Chef acts as a master chef for computer systems, automating applications and infrastructure with easy configuration management and integration with CI processes. However, it needs better documentation, flexibility, and shared resource management, prompting some to consider using Ansible. |
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees | 3.5 | I use Chef for managing server configurations consistently across thousands of servers, ensuring configurations remain uniform by applying changes via a server-client mechanism. However, managing role-based access could be improved for better efficiency. |
Devops Intern at Brillect Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd | 4.0 | I used the solution to transform my infrastructure into code, finding it easy to use and learn. It efficiently automates development in cloud environments and provides flexibility in selecting multiple clouds, but I noted no areas needing improvement. |
Presales Consultant - Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 3.5 | No summary available |
DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees | 2.0 | I used Chef for managing Kubernetes due to its automation capabilities. However, I'm not satisfied with it because it's outdated and less efficient than Ansible. Deploying a client to each service complicates automation, making it cumbersome. |
Senior Operations Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | No summary available |
Solutions Architect with 201-500 employees | 4.0 | No summary available |
AWS Content Support Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees | 3.5 | No summary available |