--- title: Progress Chef Reviews meta\_title: 'Progress Chef Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 132 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: 132 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' 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? Verified by Progress Chef [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") ServiceNow IT Service Management ](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-it-service-management/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Splunk Enterprise ](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-enterprise/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") UB Verified User in Banking Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2024 "Automate your configuration management" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? It is super easy to use, You can create groups that are helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? Maintainence is difficult since it has many parts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? It helped me in configuration of my cloud servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mike F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mike F.") MF Mike F. Mission Critical Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/24/2022 "Easy to learn and implement" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? It is easy to pick up the concepts and even easier to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? Moving between versions can be a headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? Compliance reporting and easier configuration management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/progress-chef-review-6657495/official_response/edit) Thanks Mike and I am super excited you provided your feedback. We are working towards improving moving between versions . 11/25/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Harshal S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harshal S.") HS Harshal S. Cloud Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/9/2023 "Does it worth in 2023?" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? 1:Progress Chef is known for its easy-to-use interface, making it easy for users to navigate and find what they need. 2:Chef has a large and active community of users, providing resources and support for those who need it. 3:Chef is designed to scale with an organisation's needs, making it an excellent choice for large enterprises or fast-growing companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? 1:Chef is a complex tool which is difficult for specific tasks, especially for those unfamiliar with its architecture and capabilities. 2: To deploy and maintain effectively, Chef requires significant resources, including hardware and staff. 3:Chef has a large community of users and many resources available, but documentation for the tool can sometimes be challenging for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? As a cloud Engineer, I need to work on Infrastructure provisioning, and each project requirement is different as per their choice. To handle all these requirements, the chef has helped me manage infrastructure deployment and provisioning. Chef is designed to scale with an organisation's needs, making it an excellent choice for large enterprises or fast-growing companies. It helped me a lot as it can handle large and complex requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/12/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") CA Verified User in Accounting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/17/2022 "I love Chef!" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? Chef works best to enable our team to keep a tight watch on security concerns while allowing developers to create self-service vms and bootstrap them with their custom cookbooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? The biggest downside is that we have to use WSL to use test kitchen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? Chef solves the problem of how we transition from a "pets" to "cattle" server model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/progress-chef-review-7385270/official_response/edit) So glad you love Chef and we love our customers. Let's chat about your dislikes and how we can become a 5 star vendor. Please feel free to reach out to me at michelle.sebek@progress.com Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Christopher M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Christopher M.") CM Christopher M. Lead Software Developer Building Materials Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/22/2017 "Chef'ing up Liferay" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef: Learn it well before you try to incorporate it in your enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Food & Beverages](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Food & Beverages") AF Verified User in Food & Beverages Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/21/2017 "Exective chef at a university " 2.5/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? Being able to feed people with simpe ingrednts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? At times the lack of knowdgle of the time it takes to make a dish Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef: Not at this time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? Meeting food cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Kevin V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kevin V.") KV Kevin V. Software Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/7/2016 "Great tool for system configuration management" 3/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? Chef is pretty solid for configuration management of Windows machines and ensuring that they are all setup and provisioned the same way. The setup and scripting of recipes is pretty extensive, and Windows support is solid. There are a variety of recipes to do most windows configuration needed, as well as Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? The setup is pretty complex, it can take awhile to just setup a server and figure out how to connect a client to it. It would be nice to have more functionality exposed in the Chef GUI, using command line for a majority of tasks can be tedious at times. Chef is mainly geared toward ensuring a server is configured properly, but it would be nice to have the option for 'one off' tasks. When you have agents already running on your systems for Chef it would be nice to run a task on a subset of machines instead of yet another agent and management system for that. It also runs best if you have a person dedicated to the configuration and on going maintenance of Chef. It takes some effort to keep up on your recipes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef: If you are using Azure, check out Microsoft's Azure lab on setting up Chef, it significantly speeds up the implementation process. Be sure to run through some tutorials and documentation on the Chef website as it is very difficult to setup straight out of the box. There aren't really any wizards or in-product tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? Chef solves the system configuration management issue pretty well, it is able to ensure that machines are setup similarly. The 'configuration as code' aspect makes it clear to the organization what is involved in setting up and configuration of a server. It helps to document the process as long as you follow through on continuously adding recipes as you move along. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Michael M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Michael M.") MM Michael M. Cloud Specialist Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/21/2016 "Powerful tool but difficult to get started with" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Progress Chef? Simplifies bootstrapping fleets of servers and managing required packages. Allows developers to build upon a library of packages from other developers so they don't need to start at the basics from scratch and can more quickly and easily start on the parts that really matter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Progress Chef? Very difficult and time consuming to set up and get started with; large learning curve; compatibility issues with little to no documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef: Consider as a possible solution for your DevOps build but also consider other tools like Ansible. You may very quickly become dependent on Chef once you implement it so make sure you like it and it meets your needs first. Team members with previous experience will be a huge plus to overcome the initial learning curve and setup time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you? Automating deployments, versioning deployment code, granular user permissions, scalable and highly available infrastructure and applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/23/2016 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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