External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Chef for cooking safe security
What do you like best about the product?
I like the open community with lots of resources present in the documentation and also video tutorials which help someone like me who was new to this technology pick up and complete the tasks assigned easily and effectively .
What do you dislike about the product?
Compatibility with different programming languages such as python.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Benchmarking and compliance is a huge headache for anyone working in this sector which is minimized by chef.
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
Progress Chef is an excellent tool for devops automation.
What do you like best about the product?
Progress Chef is an amazing tool for devops automation. The ease with which we can configure the instructions using receipes and cookbooks are the best feature. It is implemented using Ruby language which is super easy to understand and use as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The chef workstation for development for cookbooks and recipes should possible be replaced by something of a UI based. Something similar to Jenkins which can provide easy configuration options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Progress Chef to automate our server patching tasks. As part of security remediation, patching is one of the tedious task which we could automate completely thanks to Chef.
Easy to learn and implement
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to pick up the concepts and even easier to implement
What do you dislike about the product?
Moving between versions can be a headache.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compliance reporting and easier configuration management
Chef reviews
What do you like best about the product?
The vast variety of receipies in the community. Almost every tool installation has their own recipe. And easy management of central store for receipies.
What do you dislike about the product?
The configuration tree for the receipe can be bit less complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing multiple organisations in a single chef server .
Best server management tool
What do you like best about the product?
I was in deployment department so for every software I need to configure all server manuall like supponse you have many servers that time you don't need to configure you all server just only update on workstation then it will update on all servers another thing is some times yon need to change you ENV variable so that time you can't run you dockesr image for all server instead of these just replace value by suing chef is another best part also for CI/DC part is best
What do you dislike about the product?
Here is nothing for dislike, but If they provide us containerization with server configuration like dockers with chef that time it will really easy to handle and many people will switch on this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had one project in which we white label all things and deployed code on a different server for every client, so at that time, I needed to deploy code on 24 servers, and 70% of work for all servers were the same that time the first time I used chef and It reduced my working time from 2 weeks to 2 days and some time clint give updated information about his env like SMTP or third party URL so that time chef really helpfull
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want both CI/CD and server configuration in good manner that time use chef
Chef Review
What do you like best about the product?
Its very good tool to setup configuration management
What do you dislike about the product?
its a agent based tool thats why we need to install agent everytiem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are doing configuration management using the chef
Recommendations to others considering the product:
yes i always recommended chef to use for CI/CD
Easy to deploy with Chef
What do you like best about the product?
We have build the scripts which makes it very easy to deploy with Chef.
What do you dislike about the product?
If something goes wrong its not easy to debug
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All our deployments are with Chef now.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it.
Chef Configuration Management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Most of our client uses Chef to deploy new code in an automated fashion. We also use it to update existing configurations and push those changes in an automated fashion to large groups of servers. Having the ability to deploy simple or full system changes out to a large group of servers with little human interaction has been a game changer for our company allowing us to deploy at scale and grow our infrastructure as our company grows.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very complex tool and The Chef-client agent needs to be run on the nodes frequently to update the details of it state to master. And also to index the nodes based on tags.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chef is really great when teams are attempting to migrate over from legacy systems. In our case, it was a switch over from AIX to Linux. Thus, it was a great opportunity to use Chef to build out deployment cookbooks that could then be used win order to set up the new servers in preparation for the upgrade.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, Centralized Configuration Management; Chef really excels at that as it provides a wide range of features that are well thought of, such as data bags, encrypted data bags, roles, shared repositories, cookbooks versioning, environment locking..etc
A Great Configuration Management tool
What do you like best about the product?
- Great centralized features: data bags (central data storage), encrypted data bags, restricting script (cookbook) version on given nodes...etc.
- Amazing ruby-based syntax. This what makes Chef my preferred configuration management tool over other tools that use their own DSL. You can always use Ruby directly for complex tasks
- Open source: Chef has an open source version that does not lack important features
- Ability to test your Chef scripts (recipes and cookbooks) using automated InSpec tests
- Amazing ruby-based syntax. This what makes Chef my preferred configuration management tool over other tools that use their own DSL. You can always use Ruby directly for complex tasks
- Open source: Chef has an open source version that does not lack important features
- Ability to test your Chef scripts (recipes and cookbooks) using automated InSpec tests
What do you dislike about the product?
- There is some learning curve involved, but it's worth it
- It might be an overkill for simple automations
- It might be an overkill for simple automations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automates compute nodes configuration, so solves problems like: environment inconsistencies, speed up deploying new nodes, ..etc
Cooking with infrastructure as code
What do you like best about the product?
Once you're familiar with Chef, it's a very powerful tool for ensuring that your servers are all provisioned in the exact same way, and committing those choices to source control. There is a fairly active open source, and a lot of community cookbooks already exist for common tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Reasonably challenging to get up and running with, especially if you aren't coming from a Ruby background. The documentation lags somewhat and I occasionally found myself digging into source code to understand a behavior.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating and standardizing server configuration. Reducing the number of errors that arise from server configuration drift.
showing 51 - 60