Chef vs LaunchDarkly comparison

The compared Progress Software and LaunchDarkly solutions aren't in the same category. Progress Software is ranked #18 in CM , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 2.3% mindshare in the category. LaunchDarkly is ranked #3 in FM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 24.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Progress Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of LaunchDarkly users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

Chef and LaunchDarkly compete in the software development and deployment category. Chef tends to have the upper hand due to its cost-effective solutions and robust support, whereas LaunchDarkly excels in delivering advanced features.

Features: Chef offers automation, infrastructure management, and cloud integration with extensive configuration capabilities. LaunchDarkly provides feature flagging, real-time updates, and experimentation options for seamless deployment without service interruption.

Room for Improvement: Chef's complexity in initial setup could be simplified, especially for less experienced users. Enhancing the rollback process would also be beneficial. LaunchDarkly might improve by offering more flexible pricing and enhancing its integration capabilities with third-party tools. Improvements in offline support could further enhance user experience for both products.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Chef’s script-based deployment requires experienced personnel and offers comprehensive support. LaunchDarkly’s cloud-focused deployment is easier and faster, with streamlined service and proactive online resources, facilitating efficient management for teams.

Pricing and ROI: Chef provides a competitive, transparent pricing model appealing to budget-conscious businesses. Its strong support network contributes to ROI through reduced downtime. LaunchDarkly’s advanced features justify its potential higher setup costs, offering substantial ROI gains by improving delivery speed and feature management efficiencies.

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Mindshare comparison

Configuration Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Chef	2.3%
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform	15.2%
Microsoft Configuration Manager	11.0%
Other	71.5%

Configuration Management

Feature Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
LaunchDarkly	24.6%
Harness	40.4%
CloudBees	19.3%
Other	15.700000000000003%

Feature Management

Featured Reviews

AkashKamble

Sr MacOS specialist engineer at Cyber24

Enables management of multiple operating systems with a single license

The best feature is that it's a Microsoft product, so if anything goes wrong, we get quick support for anything required. Remote system functionality allows us to sit anywhere and take control of any device via remote management. We can enhance security for clients' laptops with built-in Microsoft Defender, which is available with the Microsoft Intune license. We use it for reporting purposes through endpoint analytics. When pushing scripting, there are two types available: remediation script and reservation script. Through endpoint analytics, you can push defender policies to clients. It helps with reporting, inventory updates, and monitoring tenant status health.

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Aaron P

DevOps Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy configuration management, optimization abilities, and complete infrastructure and application automation

In terms of improvement, Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation. There is also an issue with shared resources like cookbooks lacking context, which could lead to problems when multiple companies use them. Chef should aim for wider availability, better flexibility, clearer documentation, and improved management of shared resources to prevent conflicts. Many companies are now moving to Ansible, so I would recommend better documentation, easier customer use, and simpler integration. I have concerns about the complexity of migrating to different servers and would prefer a simpler process.

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James Bayhylle

Principal Technical Program Manager at ChowNow

Provides risk-free releases with control access and A/B testing

It allowed us to deploy faster. Despite having a rigorous code review process that slowed things down, once the code was reviewed, LaunchDarkly enabled safe deployments. If there was ever an issue, we could easily roll back a particular release by simply turning off the feature flag. When configuring and setting this up, begin with feature sets that are relatively small in scope. This helps build the necessary skills to leverage the product effectively while maintaining control over the blast radius, thus reducing risk to your customers and application in case of misconfiguration. As you gain more experience with the solution, it's crucial to have a process to manage feature flag sprawl, as mentioned earlier. Implementing a life cycle management system for your feature flags is essential. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten because of its intuitiveness and ease of use.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It helps implement conditional access policies to restrict mobile users from accessing potentially dangerous emails."

"It is a cloud solution, and you can easily scale as your needs grow."

"Microsoft Intune brings all endpoint and security management tools into one place, and for app discovery, deployment, and automatic updating, it's reliable."

"We work completely in a Microsoft environment. Its interface is similar to other Microsoft solutions that we are using such as Microsoft Defender. So far, for our administrators, it is easy to use."

"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."

"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is that it is more of a one-stop shop, providing an easier experience."

"If any user tries to access company data, it directly interacts with the conditional access policy. This helps us protect our data and set the criteria for how data can be accessed and shared."

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"It streamlined our deployments and system configurations across the board rather than have us use multiple configurations or tools, basically a one stop shop."

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

"The scalability of the product is quite nice."

"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."

"One thing that we've been able to do is a tiered permission model, allowing developers and their managers to perform their own operations in lower environments. This means a manager can go in and make changes to a whole environment, whereas a developer with less access may only be able to change individual components or be able to upgrade the version for software that they have control over."

"The solution is easy to use and learn, and it easily automates all the code and infrastructure."

"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 important thing is it can handle a 100,000 servers at the same time easily with no time constraints."

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"It has really helped during the series of product lines and faster deployment and faster development."

"I like that it offers the ability to control the flags."

"These features in my current project have helped my team because they allow us to specifically target users to start turning on functionality, we can monitor the behavior and make sure that it's behaving as expected when the feature toggle is turned on, and then we can increase the usage."

"The setup is easy."

"The ability to turn off a flag is crucial when a task is not complete, especially if there is an error in a commit."

"I appreciate that we can release any feature in production and maintain control over it."

"From the development side, it allows us to manage multiple things."

"The initial setup is very easy."

Cons

"We are currently unable to control aspects of group policy from Teams like we can for GPO. They are still not part of Intune. Microsoft is adding this, but it's currently in preview, and few GPO features have been added to the product."

"Microsoft Intune is currently overpriced."

"There are a lot of updates coming from Microsoft that suddenly affect our security policies."

"In terms of the admin experience, it is straightforward, but the Windows enrollment experience could be improved. Sometimes, for enrollment, we have to reset devices and re-enroll them. Just configuring Windows, Azure, or Active Directory doesn't enroll the devices. We need easy enrollment for Windows."

"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."

"Policy and app deployment should be faster, as it currently takes between minutes to hours to apply, with an average of one hour."

"Its integration with Mac and Linux devices can be better. They should provide more features similar to Windows. We should be able to manage policies within Linux and Mac machines. If we can have more granular controls for these two operating systems, it will be really helpful."

"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."

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"It is an old technology."

"I would also like to see more analytics and reporting features. Currently, the analytics and reporting features are limited. I'll have to start building my own custom solution with Power BI or Tableau or something like that. If it came with built-in analytics and reporting features that would be great."

"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."

"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."

"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."

"They could provide more features, so the recipes could be developed in a simpler and faster way. There is still a lot of room for improvement, providing better functionalities when creating recipes."

"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."

"The agent on the server sometimes acts finicky."

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"When the system has an excessive number of feature flags, managing them can become cumbersome."

"Managing team members and access to those team members was challenging. We could add team members through Terraform and do it programmatically, and then modify it through the user interface. However, once we started modifying things through the interface, we weren't able to go back to using any configuration programmatically for the team members."

"I strongly believe they need to develop a strategy for handling situations where LaunchDarkly goes down."

"Fetching information about multiple flags in a single action would be beneficial."

"Right now, no improvements are needed."

"The feature where one feature flag is dependent on another could be explored more for our usage."

"I have used LaunchDarkly for around two and a half years and I haven't faced any issues with it."

"We need experience to use it, and the initial setup can be difficult. Also, sometimes it has breakdowns."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am satisfied with the pricing."

"Microsoft Intune is a cost effective choice. It is less expensive than other products on the market."

"Most of our clients come to us with licensing already in place. On average, it costs $6 per device per month to add Intune to an Office 365 subscription, but I am not sure."

"Every customer used to purchase licenses based on their needs."

"The tool is cheaper than our company's other MDM tools."

"The price for Intune is fair."

"Microsoft Intune is expensive."

"Microsoft Intune's pricing is reasonable."

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"Purchasing the solution from AWS Marketplace was a good experience. AWS's pricing is pretty in line with the product's regular pricing. Though instance-wise, AWS is not the cheapest in the market."

"We are using the free, open source version of the software, which we are happy with at this time."

"Pricing for Chef is high."

"Chef is priced based on the number of nodes."

"The price is always a problem. It is high. There is room for improvement. I do like purchasing on the AWS Marketplace, but I would like the ability to negotiate and have some flexibility in the pricing on it."

"When we're rolling out a new server, we're not using the AWS Marketplace AMI, we're using our own AMI, but we are paying them a licensing fee."

"The price per node is a little weird. It doesn't scale along with your organization. If you're truly utilizing Chef to its fullest, then the number of nodes which are being utilized in any particular day might scale or change based on your Auto Scaling groups. How do you keep track of that or audit it? Then, how do you appropriately license it? It's difficult."

"We are able to save in development time, deployment time, and it makes it easier to manage the environments."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

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Educational Organization

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	116
Midsize Enterprise	46
Large Enterprise	152

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	12

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Chef?

Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Chef?

Chef is priced based on the number of nodes.

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What needs improvement with Chef?

Chef does not support the containerized things of Chef products. In the future, Chef could develop a docker container...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LaunchDarkly?

I consider the pricing to be high.

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What needs improvement with LaunchDarkly?

We need experience to use it, and the initial setup can be difficult. Also, sometimes it has breakdowns. I would rate...

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What is your primary use case for LaunchDarkly?

We use LaunchDarkly for managing feature flags. It helps manage the keys to control what users view on our screens.

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Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Overview

Microsoft Intune provides centralized management of mobile devices and applications, ensuring security, compliance, and productivity through integration with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Organizations use Intune for managing mobile devices and applications, enhancing security and compliance across platforms. With features like single sign-on, conditional access, and zero-touch deployment via Autopilot, it facilitates efficient operations. Intune's scalability, easy enrollment, and capabilities such as remote wipe support diverse device management, offering robust data protection and efficient operation. Despite its features, improvement areas include reporting, compatibility with non-Microsoft devices, and better support for macOS and Linux devices.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and System Center for streamlined management.
Conditional Access: Enhances security with policies that restrict access based on conditions.
Autopilot: Provides zero-touch deployment for setting up new devices efficiently.
Mobile Device Management: Enables control over both personal and corporate devices.
Application Deployment: Facilitates app delivery across a range of devices.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Centralized Management: Reduces complexity by managing devices and applications in one place.
Security Enhancement: Protects data with features like remote wipe and compliance monitoring.
Improved Productivity: Enhances efficiency with seamless integration and automation features.
Device Scalability: Supports diverse device management for growing business needs.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure secure and compliant device management. Companies leverage its capabilities to deploy security policies and manage both corporate-owned and BYOD environments, facilitating a unified approach to data protection and compliance.

Microsoft

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.

Progress Software

LaunchDarkly is acclaimed for its feature flag management, enabling safer, high-velocity code deployment and precise control over rollouts. Organizations use it to test, deploy, and manage features across user segments, performing canary releases and quick rollbacks without new code deployment. Users praise its robust flag system, real-time updates, detailed targeting, comprehensive analytics, and strong integration capabilities, significantly enhancing development efficiency and productivity.

LaunchDarkly

Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway

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

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