Chef is really powerful configuration management tool with great customization options and flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Agent installation, complexity of use and troubleshooting steps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Overall sessions are good; thank you for an excellent course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
nothing, Quality of the content was excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
thanks with much appreciation
I was in the deployment department, so for every software, I needed to configure all servers manually. For instance, if you have many servers, you don't need to configure each one; just update on the workstation, and it will update all servers. Another thing is sometimes you need to change your ENV variable, so you can't run your Docker image for all servers. Instead, just replace the value using Chef, which is another great feature. Also, for CI/CD, it's the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing to dislike, but if they provide containerization with server configuration like Docker with Chef, it would be really easy to handle, and many people would switch to this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Thank you so much for your review sumit! If you haven't already, definitely join the Chef Community Slack space. We have a bunch of folks there that can help with any problems you encounter and an announcement channel for our releases.
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large community of users, lots of resources on the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
nothing so far, not sure why i cant submit this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So glad you are enjoying our services. Did you check out the latest GigaOm report about Chef?Progress Chef is the Only DevOps Provider Recognized as a Policy as Code Leader (see chef.io)
Thanks again!!!!
I like the open community with lots of resources present in the documentation and also video tutorials which help someone like me who was new to this technology pick up and complete the tasks assigned easily and effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Compatibility with different programming languages such as python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lethesh thanks for your feedback and I am glad you like the open community, they are a major reason we are successful. Please make sure you check out our slack chefcommunity.slack.com. and keep the feedback coming. At Progress Chef we continue to evaluate the current trends and way to meet our customers needs in new and different ways and languages.
The vast variety of recipes in the community. Almost every tool installation has its own recipe. And easy management of central store for recipes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The configuration tree for the recipe can be a bit less complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Thanks Nikhil! We can definitely work to make things less complex in our cookbooks. Thank you so much for that feedback! And if you haven't already I for sure recommend hanging out with the non-profit organization, Sous-Chefs. They have a website and also chat in our Chef Community slack space. They're always looking for feedback as well as contributors, so feel free to join!
See how Progress Chef improvedIt's a very good tool to set up configuration management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's an agent-based tool, which is why we need to install the agent every time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Most of our clients use Chef to deploy new code in an automated fashion. We also use it to update existing configurations and push those changes in an automated fashion to large groups of servers. Having the ability to deploy simple or full system changes out to a large group of servers with little human interaction has been a game changer for our company, allowing us to deploy at scale and grow our infrastructure as our company grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a very complex tool and the Chef-client agent needs to be run on the nodes frequently to update the details of its state to the master. And also to index the nodes based on tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We have built the scripts which makes it very easy to deploy with Chef. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If something goes wrong it's not easy to debug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Great centralized features: data bags (central data storage), encrypted data bags, restricting script (cookbook) version on given nodes...etc.
- Amazing ruby-based syntax. This what makes Chef my preferred configuration management tool over other tools that use their own DSL. You can always use Ruby directly for complex tasks
- Open source: Chef has an open source version that does not lack important features
- Ability to test your Chef scripts (recipes and cookbooks) using automated InSpec tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- There is some learning curve involved, but it's worth it
- It might be an overkill for simple automations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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