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Automation meets DevOps
What do you like best about the product?
It works on most platforms windows and Linux many flavors. Robust offering
What do you dislike about the product?
Server head must be Linux. Not a bad thing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server build similar to Desired State
Recommendations to others considering the product:
A proven leader in Automation software
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Repeatable Infrastructure has been made easy
What do you like best about the product?
IT infrastructure can be saved /reused as when required. Less time to create infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult to learn the language for beginners
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) Faster time to market
2) Less human error
3) Robust infrastrcuture
2) Less human error
3) Robust infrastrcuture
Chef to automate your infra
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to understand, configure the management of your infrastructure
What do you dislike about the product?
available documentation is less as compare to other tools,
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we need to deploy a software developed by our developer, our infrastructure is very complex with different OS, environment, DBs, explorers, with the help of CHEF we did this within stipulated time without any issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to learn, implement, configure, distribute over the landscape, Ruby is the main attraction, can cook the best food for you with its available cookbooks for your infrastructure to automate
Exective chef at a university
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to feed people with simpe ingrednts
What do you dislike about the product?
At times the lack of knowdgle of the time it takes to make a dish
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Meeting food cost
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Not at this time
Longtime user and fan of Chef
What do you like best about the product?
The Chef DK allows you to have a full CI/CD workflow for your infrastructure as code. With chef you can stick to the community cookbooks and boilerplate resources or you can make it do anything you like with raw ruby.
What do you dislike about the product?
As everyone says it can be a bit daunting to get started. Most new development seems to be targeted at enterprises.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Chef, there's no excuse not to have your entire infrastructure as code.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth spending a bit more time up front to understand the product than you might with other configuration management solutions. The benefit is much more power and a massive community.
Chef'ing up Liferay
What do you like best about the product?
I like chef because it uses DSL for configuration instead of XML, Rackspace supports it very well, etc. However the absolute best thing about Chef is the concept of recipes where you can get your platform up and configured extremely easily if that platform has a chef recipe. In addition most large platforms do have chef recipes so it's great! Also, I like that it;s open source
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the things i dislike about chef, and this might jkust be a criticism of configuration management in general, is that you need pretty much a full team to support it. Sometimes I feel like it adds more complexity instead of kless.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest issue we are solving with Chef is the knowledge gap that exists in new employees when first learning out platforms. previous it would take months for new developers to become effective because they spend several months fighting with the platform, build tools, etc. Chef makes this much less of a hassle
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn it well before you try to incorporate it in your enterprise
Poor Product Overall
Similar to the Chef Server AMI reviews this has been a bust. On initial install I was able to get to the setup page just fine, but nothing worked after letting the setup wizard run. To fix that issue I had to SSH to the EC2 instance and run a yum update. After that no compliance profiles were available out of the box, which all documentation indicated there should be. Well, that should be easy with the "Add Profile" button available. Nope! Doesn't work either. A total disaster overall
Infrastructure as code never looked so intimidating and yet hopeful
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to code infrastructure and then run it in action from a single line command is amazing. Imagine spinning up not just 1, but an entire stack of services at once (a whole ecosystem). That's the power of Chef.
What do you dislike about the product?
The problems are myriad. Chef does not have an easy way to pick up for beginners. Most cookbooks are focused on Linux, not Windows. And whenever a deployment breaks, tracing it is a huge pain as there stacktrace is not very informative.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Chef solves the problem of continuously updating and deploying your software ecosystem from scratch for different purposes and even clients. This helps to make infrastructure development verifiable and repeatable.
Best tool for unifying development environment in a large team.
What do you like best about the product?
Chef provides tools for for IT automation and after trying other tools. Its a master client model and is based in Ruby which was really helpful since we were also developing applications in Ruby on Rails.
The best thing about chef is the collection of modules and configuration recipes. Also, its based around Git which everyone is familiar with and 'Knife' tool is very helpful during installations.
The best thing about chef is the collection of modules and configuration recipes. Also, its based around Git which everyone is familiar with and 'Knife' tool is very helpful during installations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve is steep but since we were already using Ruby it was a bit easy for us. Apart from that, its a not a smiple tool, It can lead to very large code bases and complicated environments quickly. One needs to be aware of that. Also, it doesn't support push functionality which other alternatives does.
Chef documentation can also be a little sketchy from time to time. They are more focused on making it work than writing documentations and doesn't provide as much platform support as other alternatives does.
Chef documentation can also be a little sketchy from time to time. They are more focused on making it work than writing documentations and doesn't provide as much platform support as other alternatives does.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use chef's Application Automation tool 'Habitat' to unify the development enviroment among a large team which can be a disaster while working with frameworks like Ruby on Rails.
A workhorse for deployment and configuration
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to manage multiple environments easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
The domain specific language has a couple of small quirks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used this to manage all of the hosts configurations and applications that we deployed. It was used for all aspects to manage log locations, configurations, and even some kernel level configurations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
https://docs.chef.io/ is your friend! The domain specific language (DSL) can be very hard at times especially for those coming from a non-Ruby programming back-ground.
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