Chef Cloud

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Progress Chef makes everything easier around my workplace by automating tasks such as installing software, managing services, and updating settings. It's simple and easy to get used to, and I'd highly recommend it.

What do you dislike about the product?

It came late ...wish it came earlier so I could introduce it to my team .

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Progress Chef automates repetitive IT tasks, like configuring servers and managing services, easing our workload and simplifying operations.

What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate how Progress Chef effortlessly automates repetitive system administration duties. Creating reusable cookbooks allows for the quick deployment, updating, and standardization of servers in various environments, which streamlines and enhances infrastructure management. I truly appreciate the testing ecosystem surrounding Chef, particularly tools like Test Kitchen and InSpec. The ability to test infrastructure code locally in isolated environments before deploying it to live servers provides significant confidence and ensures that updates won’t disrupt production. Test Kitchen simplifies the process of testing Chef cookbooks in clean, isolated virtual environments prior to code release. InSpec offers easy-to-read tests that automatically check system configurations and compliance policies. Together, they remove uncertainty and help avoid expensive misconfigurations in production environments. The setup with Chef Workstation and modern CLI tools like chef-generate went relatively smoothly. Once we configured the initial server connection and authentication keys, bootstrapping new nodes through SSH became a quick and automated process. Progress Chef integrates smoothly into our toolchain. We utilize Git to manage the cookbook source code, Terraform for initial provisioning of cloud infrastructure, Jenkins to automate testing and deployments through Test Kitchen and InSpec.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find managing Chef server and configuring agents across a large number of servers can increase operational overhead. Sometimes executing client runs on heavily loaded nodes can slow down performance, and initial configuration management may seem unnecessarily complicated for very small straightforward deployments.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Progress Chef to automate infrastructure, reducing manual server handling. It speeds up deployments, eases server updates, and smooths scaling. With Test Kitchen and InSpec, I ensure infrastructure consistency and avoid costly errors. Creating reusable cookbooks enhances deployment, standardization, and management.

What do you like best about the product?

It automates and manage server configurations,maintain infrastructure and compliance and consistency of system

What do you dislike about the product?

It’s complex to learn and configure,especially for troubleshooting issues

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reduces manual errors and configuration drift

What do you like best about the product?

The most helpful aspect of Progress Chef is its ability to eliminate manual server setup through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated configuration drift management.

What do you dislike about the product?

The least helpful part that I discovered about progress chef, is that I can take time to learn, especially when you are still getting familiar with the setup and configuration.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me with, solve the problem of having to manually configure and manage infrastructure across different systems.

What do you like best about the product?

Chef 360 is the product which I can try to migrate from infra server in my organisation to uplift new features for our customers

What do you dislike about the product?

Progress team has to come up with an AI option if possible so that we can think of how it would be useful for us to improve our infrastructure experience for customers

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compliance is one of the key which we have used to solve our hardening operating system

What do you like best about the product?

It user friendly and makes the repeative infrastructure jobs easy.It uses different language and any modifications of cookbook can be done easiy

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the failures are hard to figure out

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Routine tasks like server database provision, mundane tasks also can be automated

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Progress Chef offers easy configuration management and makes the upgrade of software components in our entire infrastructure simple, even within a regulated environment. I appreciate its capability to maintain industry-standard CIS across all the software in the organization. Plus, I find the infrastructure ageless and straightforward to manage.

What do you dislike about the product?

I find writing code in Ruby difficult. Ruby is not widely used in the industry, and it's hard to find programmers who know Ruby, plus learning it takes a long time. Also, the initial setup of Progress Chef was not easy.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Progress Chef for managing configurations and upgrading software components easily, even in a regulated environment. It helps maintain industry-standard CIS across our organization's software, making infrastructure management ageless and simple.

What do you like best about the product?

Compliance and the flexibility to leverage automations on fly

What do you dislike about the product?

The solution innovations frequency and the new enhancements are very delayed

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to utilise the hardening very effectively and very easy to automate the manual things

What do you like best about the product?

I like the collaborative environment in Progress Chef, where team members share knowledge, support one another, and focus on continuous learning.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't have any major concerns. One area for improvement would be making the sessions more interactive and ensuring enough time for questions and practical examples

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Progress Chef solves the problem of tracking progress in a structured and transparent way. Instead of manually following up on tasks, updates, and milestones across different places, everything is centralized, making it easier to see what's completed, what's pending, and what needs attention. This has helped me stay organized, save time, reduce miscommunication, and make better decisions because I always have a clear view of progress.

What do you like best about the product?

It can handle large infrastructure setups with ease.

What do you dislike about the product?

The documentation doesn’t provide enough detail for anyone who wants to build custom automations around it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

If configured correctly, Chef provides a bird’s-eye view of the entire infrastructure estate. It can be useful for a large number of people across the team.