--- title: Progress Chef Reviews meta_title: 'Progress Chef Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 103 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: 4.2 review_count: 103 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-02' 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:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 103 ## 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. Chef is one of best automation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandip R. | Technical Lead - Ruby on Rails, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** We used chef configuration management is doing good job so faar. **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Process of deployment configuration is something tricky to understand but once learned is one of the great tool **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have Internal product that we deploy on four different servers using chef and doing various configurations for each. ### 2. Chef is just awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** Because it's in Ruby and i love ruby. Better Documentation Platform support and use cases Explicit dependency management Esp rich marketplace of cookbooks Chef Server management UI is awesome **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Slow learning curve for beginners Not as easy to pick up as YAML. Knife Searching should be faster Love to see setup more quicker **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use chef for configuration management. There are lots of problem we solve using chef but we really enjoyed some of benefits from the tools Berkshelf, Foodcritic, ChefSpec & Test Kitchen ### 3. The best of breed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | Technical Lead, Insurance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2015 **What do you like best about Progress Chef?** 100% open source The right community and mindset Jez Miller Microsoft is partnering with chef and you'll see integrated TFS and visual studio stuff soon Chef continuous deliver tool shows they know what they are doing **What do you dislike about Progress Chef?** Nothing, the support is top notch. They are an awesome company that I fully recommend. **Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:** Stop looking here, puppet is just mimicking chef's model now...don't pick the company struggling to keep up. **What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration as code Configuration management Continuous delivery Infrastructure standup and tear down Blue green deployments ## 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?page=3§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-04+14%3A29%3A58+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b3684e37-3553-45f7-8802-8eab7cf007fd&secure%5Btoken%5D=6dd96a2be89718358221997178af278d9674fbdeb9bf684fdd915bff8a7f4dd3&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 (555 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews)