We performed a comparison between Automic Workload Automation and Chef based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."We have two nodes that are highly available. You can add new nodes if you need that. You can take a node, a total node, down and still be operating fine. It has a lot of scaling to it."
"As far as our schedules, if we have problems, we can create our own process in the automation, which is good."
"It is easy to manage and customize the system. It performs well."
"The scalability is great."
"We use it in every aspect of our IT operations, and the scalability is very good."
"The solution includes many features and is scalable and stable."
"It reduces operational costs and increases quality."
"Automic is 99 percent stable. We've never had a problem with stability."
"Chef recipes are easy to write and move across different servers and environments."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"I wanted to monitor a hybrid cloud environment, one using AWS and Azure. If I have to provision/orchestrate between multiple cloud platforms, I can use Chef as a one-stop solution, to broker between those cloud platforms and orchestrate around them, rather than going directly into each of the cloud-vendors' consoles."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."
"The most important thing is it can handle a 100,000 servers at the same time easily with no time constraints."
"The scalability of the product is quite nice."
"Deployment has become quick and orchestration is now easy."
"There are some scripting elements that could be added."
"For power users, it does not work well for them at the moment."
"There are too many bugs to be solved after a version upgrade. We are working on the limits of an architecture with 16,000 platforms. It is impossible to test everything out in the software lab of CA."
"I don't know if they have it now, but a mobile version would be good so instead of logging in on my laptop to see something, I could just go in through an app and see if a certain job is running or not. That would be pretty slick."
"Documentation is not great. It was previously much better."
"We would like a way to test our cloud-based automations on-premises, and then migrate them to the cloud after they have been tested, without needing an additional license."
"From my point of view, the current product needs more stability."
"The forecast and long-term planning could be made a little better when you work with it in the future."
"I would rate this solution a nine because our use case and whatever we need is there. Ten out of ten is perfect. We have to go to IOD and stuff so they should consider things like this to make it a ten."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"Since we are heading to IoT, this product should consider anything related to this."
"There appears to be no effort to fix the command line utility functionality, which is definitely broken, provides a false positive for a result when you perform the operation, and doesn't work."
"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"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."
"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
Automic Workload Automation is ranked 7th in Workload Automation with 85 reviews while Chef is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews. Automic Workload Automation is rated 8.2, while Chef is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Automic Workload Automation writes "A tool requiring an easy setup phase that provides its users with flexibility and flow chart visibility ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". Automic Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, AutoSys Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dollar Universe Workload Automation and AppWorx Workload Automation, whereas Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, SaltStack and Microsoft Configuration Manager.
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