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As of June 2025, the mindshare of Chef in the Configuration Management category stands at 1.9%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Configuration Management

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CategoryConfiguration ManagementJun 12, 2025Download
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Review data by company size

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
15%
University
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Retailer
6%
Educational Organization
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Real Estate/Law Firm
4%
Government
3%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
3%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Non Profit
2%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Construction Company
1%
Media Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
 

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Aaron  P - PeerSpot user
DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Chef
Sep 21, 2023
Easy configuration management, optimization abilities, and complete infrastructure and application automation

Pros

"The most valuable feature is its easy configuration management, optimization abilities, complete infrastructure and application automation, and its superiority over other similar tools."

Cons

"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."
Arun S . - PeerSpot user
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Verified user of Chef
Feb 17, 2023
Product version discussed: 17
Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."
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Neha Bisen - PeerSpot user
Devops Intern at Brillect Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Verified user of Chef
Sep 15, 2024
Easy to use and easily automates all the code and infrastructure

Pros

"The solution is easy to use and learn, and it easily automates all the code and infrastructure."
Murat Gultekin - PeerSpot user
Presales Consultant - Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Verified user of Chef
Apr 10, 2022
Easy to install configuration management and automation tool with a good compliance feature

Pros

"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."

Cons

"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
Ivan Bizhev - PeerSpot user
DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Chef
Nov 22, 2023
The product has an old technology, though it is useful for automating processes

Pros

"The product is useful for automating processes."

Cons

"It is an old technology."
MS
Senior Operations Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Chef
Jan 8, 2019
Product version discussed: AWS
It streamlined our deployments and system configurations across the board rather than have us use multiple configurations or tools

Pros

"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."

Cons

"I would like them to add database specific items, configuration items, and migration tools. Not necessarily on the builder side or the actual setup of the system, but more of a migration package for your different database sets, such as MongoDB, your extenders, etc. I want to see how that would function with a transition out to AWS for Aurora services and any of the RDBMS packages."
AS
Solutions Architect with 201-500 employees
Verified user of Chef
Jan 8, 2019
Product version discussed: AWS
The scalability and technical support are very good

Pros

"The scalability of the product is quite nice."

Cons

"The agent on the server sometimes acts finicky. "
PeerSpot user
AWS Content Support Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Chef
Jan 6, 2019
Product version discussed: AWS
Great for configuration management and integration, especially in AWS

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the language that it uses: Ruby."

Cons

"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."