We performed a comparison between Chef and HashiCorp Terraform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Intune can wipe devices. For example, if a disgruntled employee wants to leak the data on their company phone, Intune can terminate their access and wipe the entire device with a click."
"Among the most valuable features are the Company Portal that is built into Intune, and the update rings so that we can manage what types of future updates the devices get."
"For Windows services, there are multiple options within Intune to modernize it to be more internet-facing and dynamic."
"The most valuable feature is probably mobile device management. Small businesses are coming under greater scrutiny and requirements for compliance as time goes on. We don't have to worry about a VPN because we can manage these devices, control company data, and lock users out. If needed, we can remotely wipe devices and deadman-switch them."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"The most valuable feature is the language that it uses: Ruby."
"The scalability of the product is quite nice."
"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."
"Deployment has become quick and orchestration is now easy."
"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."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"Chef recipes are easy to write and move across different servers and environments."
"It is a well thought out product which integrates well with what developers and customers are looking for."
"The state backend, automated describe functionality, modular structures, and variablization using templates are most valuable."
"It's very easy to automate functions on the cloud with HashiCorp Terraform. The commands are easy as well."
"The most valuable feature of Terraform is the ability to use it as a coding language because it works in a way that's similar to other coding languages."
"The concept of infrastructure as code is quite intriguing. We have an infrastructure in our code and a state file where we can verify whether something is changed when it was changed, and who changed it. When we use Terraform, these kinds of things fascinate us."
"With Terraform, you don't need to understand the console of your cloud providers. You only need to understand how Terraform works, and you manage your infrastructure tools in Terraform."
"It is a stable solution."
"We frequently need to create and replicate infrastructure from various environments like dev and QA. The QA resources need to be identical to those in the dev environment. With a Terraform script, we can replicate the same 50 in the dev environment to the testing environment. This is tedious to do manually, and Terraform speeds up the process."
"Provides automation which has increased our efficiency."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"The backend of Microsoft Intune needs to be improved. We have seen a little bit of delay as compared to other MDM solutions. That needs to be improved. A little bit more granularity should also be added"
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I'm still playing around with it and haven't had any issues with the product yet, but support can definitely be improved."
"There needs to be more support for Mac operating systems."
"There are a few security features that are not available in Microsoft Intune, when compared to other products."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"It is an old technology."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."
"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."
"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."
"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
"Since we are heading to IoT, this product should consider anything related to this."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"From a user's perspective, it would be great if a UI tool is made available in the open source version as well, but I don't think it may be introduced because of the high costs for it announced by HashiCorp in its licensed version...HashiCorp Terraform can improve backward compatibility."
"Automation is needed to import everything at once from a manual environment or by a specific resource group."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"This solution could be improved by adding features such as CDM to accelerate the access of data by the users."
"The product must improve DevOps features."
"When a misconfiguration or drift occurs, fixing the issue can be difficult. For instance, if there is a change in API calls while a script is running, it can be challenging to make corrections. This may require additional review and modifications to the code. I recall an instance where an industry budget creation process was altered, and it took significant time to amend the code. In fact, I had to add five or six different script portions to resolve the issue."
Chef is ranked 15th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, BigFix and Microsoft Configuration Manager, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with SaltStack, Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor. See our Chef vs. HashiCorp Terraform report.
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