We performed a comparison between Chef and Digital.ai Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"Automation is everything. Having so many servers in production, many of our processes won't work nor scale. So, we look for tools to help us automate the process, and Chef is one of them."
"If you're handy enough with DSL and you can present your own front-facing interface to your developers, then you can actually have a lot more granular control with Chef in operations over what developers can perform and what they can't."
"The most valuable feature is the language that it uses: Ruby."
"It is a well thought out product which integrates well with what developers and customers are looking for."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"The scalability of the product is quite nice."
"The solution creates a manifest file that caps the bridge between the developer and the system admin."
"This product is an innovative market leader in the field of application deployment."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is vendor-agnostic and it has a file called Manifest, which makes it possible for developers, ops people, and system admins to cooperate."
"There is a slight barrier to entry if you are used to using Ansible, since it is Ruby-based."
"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."
"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."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"The agent on the server sometimes acts finicky."
"The solution currently has a bug that causes performance issues. They need to resolve this in a future release."
"The tool needs to improve on cloud-native GitOps."
"While it is a flexible product and provides a means of integrating with virtually anything, the company should make a better effort to keep up with new platform integrations."
Chef is ranked 12th in Release Automation with 18 reviews while Digital.ai Deploy is ranked 14th in Release Automation with 11 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while Digital.ai Deploy is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Digital.ai Deploy writes "Besides for the flash GUI which is a pain, it includes all of the features we were looking for". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix, whereas Digital.ai Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, GitLab and Digital.ai Release .
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