--- title: Progress Chef Reviews meta\_title: 'Progress Chef Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 133 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Progress Chef works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 133 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Progress Chef Reviews & Product Details Visit Website The Progress Chef portfolio consists of multiple, integrated products. It offers a set of capabilities that provide organizations the flexibility to support different use cases. All these capabilities are based on a trusted set of tools rooted in open source, starting with the ability to configure, deploy and manage all aspects of a technology stack as well as the ability to secure and support compliance across the asset fleet. The Chef portfolio includes configuration/infrastructure management, application delivery (including edge support and device management as well as support for security and compliance), all of which are supported by a single pane of glass for fleet wide visibility and control. * * * Product Website Progress Chef Seller [Progress Software](https://www.g2.com/sellers/progress-software) Discussions [Progress Chef Community](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-chef/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Jennifer Meyer (Customer Advocacy Manager) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-chef/pricing) ## Progress Chef Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? 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Army Of One Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/13/2016 "Automating deployment with Chef" 0/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? Chef is a standard in automated deployment. Is used in Facebook and it's really REALLY powerful. It's a very serious thing about deployment automation and it's capabilities are huge. Maintains states (software, configuration...) of the entire cluster, and I'm talking about hundreds of nodes. Cookbooks are very popular and you can find them to do almost everything in the open source community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? Chef is terribly complex to deploy by itself, not only needs a Chef Server that internally will install a RabbitMQ, a SQL database, a Nginx... it can really take a lot of resources of your machine. Not only this, you need to install a daemon, Chef Client, on each Chef node you want to manage. Of course if this Client fails... your node is "lost" for Chef and you cannot manage it anymore until you restart the client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef: If you really, really need to manage a big set of nodes to do very complex things, you can give Chef a try (you also have Puppet). But if need something relatively simple I don't think is worth the effort. As I mention before, Chef is quite complex if you want to do simple things (maybe Ansible fits better in this case) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? We were automating the installation of 8 to 10 linux packages over a set of 4 to 20 machines. We were using a "root" machine to start the installation and, using a web ui, let a user select a set of technologies to install them on the rest of the nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Progress Chef? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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