Progress Chef

Progress Chef

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Progress Chef	Score6.5 out of 10	N/A	Chef IT infrastructure automation suites were developed by Chef Software in Seattle and acquired by Progress Software in September 2020. The Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is an integrated suite of automation technologies presented as a solution for delivering change quickly, repeatedly, and securely over every application's lifecycle. The Chef Effortless Infrastructure Suit is an integrated suite of automation technologies to codify infrastructure, security, and compliance, as well as…	N/A

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	Progress Chef
Considered Both Products	Progress Software Verified User Chose Progress Chef Chef is the more developer-oriented of the three main tools in this space. It has a steeper learning curve as a result but it allows you to do more. Puppet seems to be more geared towards automated the management of the operating system. Ansible is an excellent tool but … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Ericsson Senior Vice President Of Product Development in Product Management at Rizing (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Progress Chef We considered the three leading competitors in the field: Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Ansible is a very strong competitor and has a nice degree of flexibility in that it does not require a client install. Instead the configuration is delivered by SSH which is very simple. Puppet … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef Puppet Labs and CFEngine are also open source and competes with Chef. Chef has more support from the community with templates available for large scale IT deployments. RedHat Ansible is better suited when you are already using RedHat OS and OpenShift since it comes as it comes … Incentivized Helpful? Sean Zef Data Admin in Information Technology at Zef Enterprises, LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Progress Chef Briefly looked into Puppet but ended up going with Chef because a colleague had experience with it instead. Didn't get far enough into a deployment to even really compare the two. Incentivized Helpful? Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer in Information Technology at WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo Company (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Progress Chef We found that Chef was easy to use, and we liked the whole concept of recipes and cookbooks. We were using the concept of recipes and cookbooks for our SQL development, so Chef was a natural fit for our team members and environment. That whole paradigm is easy for everyone … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Maggiulli Enterprise Software Architect in Research & Development at Latham Pool Products Inc (Building Materials, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Progress Chef I've mostly explained the differences between Ansible and Chef in my previous answers. I generally prefer Chef over Ansible because the platforms we use have very convenient cookbooks. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef Chef is easy to install and manage, and the learning curve is minimal, as most of the engineers are already aware of the syntax to configure services. With flexible crating recipes and cookbooks, Chef made our jobs easier, and also it integrates well with Puppet. Overall … Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Cauwels DevOps Engineer in Engineering at CBRE (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees) Chose Progress Chef Chef is something we have been using for a while, so it is the natural choice when training new engineers to maintain our systems. If I was to choose a configuration management tool now, I would pick Ansible mainly because of its agentless nature and YAML cookbook language … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef To be honest I believe SaltStack would provide a very similar experience to Chef and would allow us to automate much of our operational tasks in the same way, however I feel that Chef is more conducive to a mixed environment of Windows and Linux servers. This is the primary … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef We believe Chef is a great tool for DevOp. It works really well with repository tools such as Bitbucket and artifactory. The other products we evaluated either were too pricey or did not have the support we needed for a company that was very vanilla with automation. We selected … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef We were evaluating Ansible as it was agent less, SSH based, simple to use and is completely based on SSH protocol. As and when the servers count increase the performance might degrade. One main disadvantage with Ansible is it is more suitable for linux based systems where SSH … Incentivized Helpful? Aiman Najjar DevOps Principal Architect in Information Technology at Pythian (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Progress Chef I really found that Chef to be much friendlier and innovative than Puppet. There is an opinion in the DevOps community that says that Chef is friendlier to programmers whereas Puppet is friendlier to system administrators. This might be true, as I do come from development … Incentivized Helpful? Ofir Gutmacher DevOps Manager at Bezeq International (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Progress Chef Chef is good for organizations with many servers, because of the client-server approach. I guess Ansible can be used for some 20-40 servers, just ssh and run the playbook. Chef is in ruby which is a really simple to learn language as opposed to competitiors. Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Van Heusen Software Architect in Engineering at SpringAhead (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Progress Chef Chef was easier to setup than Puppet. It also has better Windows support and documentation. Reading through the Chef documentation gave good examples on how to configure things for Windows environments, however Puppet was a bit lacking in that regard. Puppet has better support … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Lepinski Systems Engineer in Information Technology at NativeX (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees) Chose Progress Chef We did evaluate other solutions comparable to Chef. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Progress Chef Ansible and salt stack seem to be the new cool kids on the block because they are easier to setup and manage across smaller teams. I think the use of puppet is dying down in favor for these new technologies. I would like to see chef use cases with simpler implementation. Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Progress Chef
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (18 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.4 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	6.4 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.6 (5 ratings)
Professional Services	9.1 (1 ratings)