# Progress Chef Reviews **Vendor:** Progress Software **Category:** [Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-infrastructure-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 102 ## 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. Best tool to automate Infrastructure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suvom D. | Lead Devops, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** The best part of using Progress Chef is that it doesn't depend on a single cloud infrastructure. We offer SaaS as well as Product as a Service. Given this, we provide infrastructure code and Docker images for applications to our customers. Therefore, we required a service that can manage both infrastructure code and application deployment, including the pipeline for future releases. In these terms, Progress Chef is the go-to solution for us, whether our customer is in AWS, Azure, or GCP. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** I would like it even more if I can get a managed service for using Progress Chef. The Infrastructure requirement for Progress Chef is a bit complex. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems that are solved by Progress Chef are as follows: 1. It doesn't depend on cloud infrastructure. It can be used for AWS, Azure, GCP or On-Prem deployment as well. 2. Single software can be used for configuration management, CI/CD, IaC. 3. To deploy an entire application with infrastructure in a customer environment irrespective of the cloud provider they use, Progress Chef is the best solution available in the market. ### 2. Ease of Automation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Biswaranjan B. | C, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** I have used Chef in my previous company and have setup chef work station in my local. which was simple and it helps me to make some configuration changes without any downtime. it pulls configurations from the central server to the worker node **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Chef can improve their support community for better growth. Initially, I have faced a few issue while writing the cookbooks it would have helped if they improve their support community. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have integrated chef with Jenkins which helped a lot . Also if we make some changes we used to fire one command chef-client which provides detailed reports and logs of the actions it performs during each Chef client run. ### 3. 4+ years experience in creating cookbooks in IaaC environment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vikrama p. | Bengaluru, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** The most helpful aspect of Chef is its ability to automate and manage infrastructure as code. Chef supports various operating systems and cloud platforms, making it versatile for managing heterogeneous environments. I like the features for auditing and ensuring compliance with security policies. It helps organizations maintain a secure and compliant infrastructure. And I like a chef-automate dashboard. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Proper testing of cookbooks is crucial, and setting up a testing environment can require additional effort. Some colleagues find the testing and development process more involved compared to simpler tools. Lack of documentation or may lack real-world examples for practical scenarios. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Chef for post-build installation and configuration of software, significantly reducing the time required during server setup ### 4. I have such a great experience to use the same. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhavesh P. | Senior Engineer (CloudOps/DevOps), Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Progress Chef sounds like a fascinating concept! It seems like a tool or platform designed to help individuals or businesses in the culinary field track their progress and improve their skills. I think what I'd like best about it is the potential for continuous growth and learning it offers. Being able to see your progress over time and identify areas for improvement can be incredibly motivating and helpful in mastering any skill, including cooking. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Nothing as of now. As it's covered all required features. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** It awesome tool which help to automate infra, CI/CD and cloud compliances. ### 5. Chef software devops automation product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveenkumar M. | QA Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Broad user community ChefConf is an excellent conference **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** It remains to be seen how Chef evolves after being acquired by Progress The Chef technology itself for cookbook development has a not-insignificant learning curve due to how powerful it is **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Chef to automate configuration management allows DevOps teams to define policies that are repeatable, consistent and reusable. The result is increased business agility and security because all systems and resources are continuously and automatically evaluated, corrected, and modified. ### 6. Very Efficient and reliable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal S. | Student Ambassador, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Progress Chef in my opinion is one of the best tools to maintain and manage servers. It has made our job much easier. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** There are very few downside and even few which I have faced, the setup and downtimes are daunting but apart from it it's great. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Earlier we used to mange our servers and cloud infra, manually but with is product, its way easier for us to understand the problems that occur in our systems. **Official Response from michelle sebek:** > Vishal, thank you so much for your kind words and I am so happy it is working to make your life easier. Best, Michelle ### 7. Chef for all your DevScOps needs - Love TestKitchen **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rinky K. | Operations Specialist 1, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** TestKitchen to test everyrecipe before deploying, manages hugs scale, stability Infra server provides and Inspec 6 parallel scan feature **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Can be better for Windows clients, Chef automate should be easier to install **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manages huge RHEL7 fleet, scans using inspec profiles and reporing in Automate. ### 8. Progress chef is a great tool for Cloud Infrastructure Automation and Configuration Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamil P. | Senior Cloud Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Progress chef is really easy in terms of Implementation. It has great number of features including Infrastructure Management, Release Automation, Task Management, Dashboard and Visualization etc **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Progress chef documentation can be made more simpler and adoptive. The quality if documentation is really important when it comes to implement a tool practically. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Progress chef for automating the Infrastructure deployment and Configuration tasks management. ### 9. Easy Integration and Configuration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** It is very wel written configuration management tool and very good to have for writing system configurations. It can very easily integrate with cloud based platforms.The best part is we can run it in client/server mode **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Written in pure domain specific Ruby language which can be difficult sometimes for users who don't know much about this language **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating the provision and configurations of new machines ### 10. Chef Recipes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Firoj S. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** There are multiple reasons why i love chef, like being open source, auotmate the configuration, accuracy. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** For the general audience (college students) not hear about chef easily. They could have better marketing around it. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using chef we are taking L3 backup from one cloud provder to another. It saves us incase there is any breakdown/outage in cloud provider services. ## 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/progress-chef-review-79698?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-23+11%3A00%3A49+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=601ec800-f0db-4d75-9956-7abebf9f1bcf&secure%5Btoken%5D=2ef37fdf19a6763e607779af8b3152cb62833c7350a4cf4d861bd8b3a73871e7&format=llm_user) ## Progress Chef Features **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** - 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 **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 **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics ## 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 (549 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews)