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Save time with Chef
What do you like best about the product?
Progress Chef allows our developers to have more control over their web application infrastructure, thereby allowing the developers to roll out web applications and services more quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Figuring out the syntax required in Ruby to implement a given resource update is sometimes difficult.
- It's not easy to pass status information from powershell scripts back to Chef/Ruby.
- It's not real clear what Progress Chef is responsible for vs the Chef community.
- It's not easy to pass status information from powershell scripts back to Chef/Ruby.
- It's not real clear what Progress Chef is responsible for vs the Chef community.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Progress Chef automates a lot of the IIS setup that we previously performed manually. That speeds things up for our developers, as they don't have to submit service requests to IT Infrastructure to configure IIS. We are also now making additional use of Chef Inspec to ensure that our servers are hardened to CIS level 1 requirements.
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Its good tool for pull model for both windows and Linux nodes
What do you like best about the product?
We like to use this for push model for CIS benchmark configurations
What do you dislike about the product?
It is good if we can have push model to use to deploy configurations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It resolves most of the configuration keys in CIS benchmark model
Chef Experience
What do you like best about the product?
We have used Chef for 10+ years as our configuration management tool. The Chef Infra infrastructure has been robust and provided a stable platform for us to develop against. The out of box functionality solves many of our use cases and the Chef DSL provides enough extensibility that we can create functionality for our specific use cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main dislike about Chef is the care and feeding required to perform a chef-client update. Usually, taking a chef-client upgrade takes us at least a month to work through rolling it out across our organization. We have chef-client running daemonized in many environments, and the upgrade process stops the automatic runs for about a 24-hour period, which means we could have server drift during this window. This means we have to be picky about which version of chef-client we run, and usually wait until a new major version is released, upgrade, and then sit on that version until EOL. Ideally, we'd love to keep that current as much as possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main business process Chef is helping us to resolve is keeping our fleet of servers standardized and consistent. It allows us to use automation and code to keep systems up to date and current with our standards and reduces our reliance on humans to do much of that work.
Amazing Conference for Newbies!
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility to attend virtually was very convenient, which helped me to participate in the conference at my own pace. The way marketing was done to attend the meeting was also fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing that I could think of. Maybe LinkedIn marketing about the conference would be much better as I personally think that many more audience could have attended.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems about automation, enhancements and feature updates were terrific and how Chef solves them with an automated process is very beneficial.
Chef opened the door for working with new technologies
What do you like best about the product?
Good toolset, good docs, support & community.
Complete solution with useful features.
Is in constant development using feedback from customers.
Great to work with from a developer standpoint.
Complete solution with useful features.
Is in constant development using feedback from customers.
Great to work with from a developer standpoint.
What do you dislike about the product?
Bumpy or scattered product roadmap; eg. policyfiles introduced as an afterthought, and this also shows in the web UIs. Chef Automate UI not my personal favourite.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Testing new developments on local machines,
Installing required toolsets for newly provisioned servers,
Having general overview of automation runs,
Being able to roll out updates to great number of servers at once
Installing required toolsets for newly provisioned servers,
Having general overview of automation runs,
Being able to roll out updates to great number of servers at once
chef tools best
What do you like best about the product?
I started using chef products over the last 8 years, and I became an expert in chef software running kitchens, chef knife cli, compliance, inspect, easy to integrate API's with other applications, pipeline, ruby language easy to use and get familiar quickly using chef error handling messages. Chef configuration management and deployment application.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at this point and no comments about any dislike of the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost reduction is a must to keep clients using the product.
Chef Review
What do you like best about the product?
Chef is really powerful configuration management tool with great customization options and flexibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Agent installation, complexity of use and troubleshooting steps
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Robust configuration management
Chef is a great product, but I have some concerns.
What do you like best about the product?
Chef is a great product, and it solves many of the problems we have with compliance and policy enforcement. We have reasonably good support from our success team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Development on the product seems hit or miss, sometimes rushed and not always well documented. Sometimes our customer success resources aren't sure how to solve our problems. It seems evident that something has happened internally to Progress/Chef, which is impacting their ability to develop and release stable products. This is a little panic-inducing for a company using Chef across an install base of nearly 70,000 servers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As mentioned, we solve quite a few build, deployment and compliance problems with Chef. Much of that work is purely steady-state, not actively developed or changed. We're hoping new versions of Chef client, Chef Automate and the underlying technologies can start driving more progress and involvement in developing Chef.
Chef Inspec enforces CIS compliance rules
What do you like best about the product?
Chef Inspec has an easy-to-understand human-readable format. We implemented the CIS benchmarks for Red Hat Linux as Inspec rules quickly and with minimal error. Now, all our systems get scanned daily for CIS compliance and non-complying systems are few. Chef Inspec is also run as part of the new system build process, so CIS compliance is there from the start.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you program in Ruby you might want to use a lot of native Ruby in Chef Inspec recipes. Avoid the temptation. First, see if there is a native Chef Inspec function.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being 100% CIS compliant is one of our security goals. By leveraging the power of Chef Inspec we can accomplish this with less effort than coding everything from scratch.
unlocking knowledge to next level to benefit personal skills
What do you like best about the product?
Overall sessions are good; thank you for an excellent course.
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing, Quality of the content was excellent.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
building database automation
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