Chef Reviews

Name: Chef
Brand: Chef
Rating: 4 (18 reviews)

Vendor: Chef

4.0 out of 5

18 reviews
95% willing to recommend

654 followers

What is Chef?

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.

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Chef is the #15 ranked solution in top Release Automation solutions, #16 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions, and #17 ranked solution in top Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Chef an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Chef is most commonly compared to Microsoft Intune: Chef vs Microsoft Intune. Chef is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Aaron P

DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Chef is like a master chef in a kitchen for computer systems. It's used to create recipes (cookbooks) that specify how servers and apps should be set up. Chef then makes sure these instructions are followed the same way on all computers in a network. The ChefServer is like the recipe book, where…

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Arun S .

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Chef can be scaled as needed. The Chef server itself can scale but it depends on the available resources. You can upgrade specific resources to meet the demand. Similarly, with clients, you can add as many clients as you need. Again, this depends on the server resources. If the server has enough resources, it can handle the number of servers required to manage the infrastructure. Chef can be scaled to meet the needs of the infrastructure being managed. The solution is good to manage multiple large infrastructures. We can have 10 to 10,000 users using this solution and it manages them well.

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Murat Gultekin

Presales Consultant - Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

For automation and configuration management, we are using several tools: Terraform, Chef, and Ansible for provisioning. We are using those products, and they are good. They are not for container management, but for provisioning and deploying applications, software, and hardware. We are also using them for automation. Chef is a configuration management tool. I can recommend Chef to others who want to start using it. I can also recommend other products, e.g. Ansible, but most of the tools which are competitors of Chef and have the same functions are also good. I'm giving Chef a rating of seven out of ten.

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Chef mindshare

Product category:

As of July 2024, the mindshare of Chef in the Configuration Management category stands at 1.4%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Configuration Management

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"The product is useful for automating processes."
"The most valuable feature is its easy configuration management, optimization abilities, complete infrastructure and application automation, and its superiority over other similar tools."

Room for Improvement

"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"It is an old technology."
"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."

Pricing

"Chef is priced based on the number of nodes."
"Pricing for Chef is high."
"I wasn't involved in the purchasing, but I am pretty sure that we are happy with the current pricing and licensing since it never comes up."

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