Akuity Platform vs Chef comparison

Akuity and Progress Software are both solutions in the Release Automation category. Additionally, 100% of Akuity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Progress Software users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Akuity Platform

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Chef

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (12th), Release Automation (5th), Configuration Management (12th)

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reviewer2795178

Senior Product Developer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Streamlined AWS workflows have simplified onboarding and removed development bottlenecks

The best features that Akuity Platform offers include the ease of using it, as everything is available on the AWS marketplace, and basically the user interface, so ease of use, easy user onboarding, and everything. The easy to use feature is the main feature of Akuity Platform because a new person comes in and that person can be easily onboarded and trained on that. Akuity Platform has impacted my organization positively through ease of onboarding and ease of use; we do not have to rely on difficult trainings for new joiners.

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Walter Ochieng Odhiambo

Software Engineer and Tester at Safaricom

Automation has transformed daily infrastructure work and now frees teams to focus on new challenges

One thing that Chef needs to improve on is making it available in as many languages as possible. There should be a focus on how to make it understandable, not just to infrastructure people, but also to those working in monitoring. How can we ensure that it is part of their daily input? That is something that still has a small missing link. We are almost there, but it can help us achieve outcomes in the future in terms of objectives, not just workflows and visibility. How can we make real-time interactive dashboards more available? Look at what kind of tools can be integrated with them, not just working with the ones like Chef Kitchen and Habitat, but trying to make it even more flexible than what we have right now. On support, I think there should be more focus on how we can achieve AI automations in answering questions for beginners and addressing deep concerns without general manual management.

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	19

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Akuity Platform?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Akuity Platform was that it was a bit expensive, but overall, I felt that was acceptable. If it can be reduced, that would be great.

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What needs improvement with Akuity Platform?

Akuity Platform can be improved by needing a bit more maturity on multi-environment strategies, and we are currently configuring it while facing some difficulties with the documentation. From a per...

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What is your primary use case for Akuity Platform?

Akuity Platform provides us with an enterprise-grade delivery platform with a single control plane and helps us to scale up using a GitOps strategy, which is why we use it inside our infrastructure...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Chef?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that we sidestepped it by using Cinc because none of the functionality that is exclusive to the paid version was actually in use in the orga...

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What needs improvement with Chef?

I would add that Ruby is a domain-specific language in the Chef dialect, which is a learning curve, but so is Terraform and so is Ansible. The only feedback would be if they could come up with an i...

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What is your primary use case for Chef?

My main use case for Chef is configuration and deployments. We receive blank servers and use Chef to build predefined application or appliance servers. A quick specific example of how I use Chef to...

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Overview

Deploy, promote, and monitor with ease using GitOps at Enterprise scale. Akuity Platform’s hybrid architecture increases security and makes Kubernetes deployments easier to manage with only one control plane for thousands of clusters.

Akuity

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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Facebook, Standard Bank, GE Capital, Nordstrom, Optum, Barclays, IGN, General Motors, Scholastic, Riot Games, NCR, Gap

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