--- 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 **Vendor:** Progress Software **Category:** [Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 133 ## About Progress Chef 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. ## Progress Chef Reviews ### 1. Automate your configuration management **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** It is super easy to use, You can create groups that are helpful **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Maintainence is difficult since it has many parts **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me in configuration of my cloud servers ### 2. Easy to learn and implement **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike F. | Mission Critical Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** It is easy to pick up the concepts and even easier to implement **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Moving between versions can be a headache. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compliance reporting and easier configuration management **Official Response from michelle sebek:** > Thanks Mike and I am super excited you provided your feedback. We are working towards improving moving between versions . ### 3. Does it worth in 2023? **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshal S. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 4. I love Chef! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2022 **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. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** The biggest downside is that we have to use WSL to use test kitchen. **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. **Official Response from michelle sebek:** > 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 ### 5. Chef'ing up Liferay **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher M. | Lead Software Developer, Building Materials, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2017 **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 **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. **Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:** Learn it well before you try to incorporate it in your enterprise **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 ### 6. Exective chef at a university **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Being able to feed people with simpe ingrednts **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** At times the lack of knowdgle of the time it takes to make a dish **Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:** Not at this time **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meeting food cost ### 7. Great tool for system configuration management **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin V. | Software Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 8. Powerful tool but difficult to get started with **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael M. | Cloud Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2016 **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 **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 **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. **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 ## Progress Chef Discussions - [How has Progress Chef helped automate your infrastructure management, and what features do you rely on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-has-progress-chef-helped-automate-your-infrastructure-management-and-what-features-do-you-rely-on) - [What is Progress Chef used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-progress-chef-used-for) - [View Progress Chef pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-chef/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-10+08%3A50%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=941dd606-5f60-4467-ba2f-062076595f25&secure%5Btoken%5D=0bfb489f970511d085f9f958b519713997fa96e841cf59004c1ad3973d2a3160&format=llm_user) ## Progress Chef Integrations - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - [ServiceNow IT Service Management](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-it-service-management/reviews) - [Splunk Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-enterprise/reviews) ## Progress Chef Features **Additional Functionality** - Widgets - Impact Management - Customizable Forms - Self Service Portal - License Management - Scheduled/Automated Reports - Task Management - Request Assignment - Help Desk Management - Surveys & Feedback - SSL Security - IT Asset Tracking - Knowledge Base Management - Compliance Management - Support Ticket Management - Single Sign On - Data Mapping - Client Portal - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Activity Dashboard - Incident Management - Alerts/Escalation - Prioritization - Generative AI - Performance Monitoring - Email Management - Active Directory Integration - Third-Party Integrations - Alerts/Notifications - Collaboration Tools - Reporting & Statistics - Asset Lifecycle Management - Inventory Management - Data Import/Export - Access Controls/Permissions - Drag & Drop - Activity Tracking - AI Copilot - Workflow Management - Configuration Management - Problem Management - Configurable Workflow - IT Asset Management - API - Data Visualization - Change Management - Device Auto Discovery - Customizable Reports - Contract/License Management - Relationship Mapping - Customizable Fields - Support Ticket Tracking - Vulnerability Scanning - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Cost Tracking - Template Management - Lifecycle Management - Historical Reporting - Monitoring - Configuration Automation - Customizable Templates - Search/Filter - File Management - Status Tracking - Patch Management - Document Management - Real-Time Reporting - Real-Time Monitoring - Version Control - Task Progress Tracking - IT Cost Management - Archiving & Retention - Scheduling - Reporting/Analytics - User Management - Policy Management - Real-Time Analytics - Role-Based Permissions - Rules-Based Workflow - Audit Trail - Business Process Automation - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance - Task Scheduling **Administration ** - Administration Console - Task Management - Dashboards and Visualizations - Access Control **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Anomoly Detection - Data Loss Prevention - Cloud Gap Analytics **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Third-Party Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Automation** - Test Automation - Intelligent Automation - Release Automation - Automated Provisioning **Compliance** - Governance - Data Governance - Sensitive Data Compliance **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing - Real-Time Data - Cloud Application Security - SSL Security **IT Management** - Workflow Management - Infrastructure Management - IT Discovery **Administration** - Policy Enforcement - Auditing - Workflow Management **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Additional Functionality** - Continuous Deployment - Source-Code Scanning - Continuous Delivery - Prioritization - Generative AI - Compliance Management - Data Import/Export - Access Controls/Permissions - Bug Tracking - Reporting/Analytics - For Developers - Issue Management - Repository Management - Workflow Management - Monitoring - Pipeline Management - Application Management - API - AI Copilot - Configuration Management - Data Storage Management - Multi-User Collaboration - Project Management - Version Control - Activity Dashboard - Data Synchronization - Lifecycle Management - Change Management - Status Tracking - Authentication - Alerts/Notifications - Automated Testing - Debugging - Approval Process Control - Build Log - Quality Assurance **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics - Real-Time Analytics - Visual Analytics - Reporting/Analytics **Additional Functionality** - Alerts/Notifications - AI Copilot - Access Controls/Permissions - Endpoint Management - Intrusion Detection System - Compliance Management - HIPAA Compliant - Search/Filter - API - Two-Factor Authentication - Data Visualization - Risk Assessment - Real-Time Monitoring - Event Logs - Activity Dashboard - Audit Management - Cloud Security Policy Management - Vulnerability Protection - Anti Virus - Incident Management - Threat Intelligence - Real-Time Reporting - Reporting & Statistics - User Management - Encryption - Vulnerability Scanning - Generative AI - Status Tracking - Third-Party Integrations - Real-Time Notifications - Patch Management - Monitoring - Cloud Encryption ## Top Progress Chef Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (560 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews)