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Progress Chef Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Seller

Progress Software

Discussions

Progress Chef Community

Overview by

Jennifer Meyer (Customer Advocacy Manager)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

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Progress Chef Media

Node Status Report with option for Profile Status readout

Progress Chef Demo - Chef Infrastructure

Chef Infra Client Run Status displaying passed and failed nodes

Profile shows the definition, metadata, and resources to scan

Effortlessly manage your DevOps work in the cloud.

Continuously monitor and validate users and devices for privileges and attributes with Chef.

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chandra p.

database admin

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/19/2022

"unlocking knowledge to next level to benefit personal skills"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Overall sessions are good; thank you for an excellent course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

nothing, Quality of the content was excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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thanks with much appreciation

sumit s.

Python Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/10/2022

"Best server management tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

I was in deployment department so for every software I need to configure all server manuall like supponse you have many servers that time you don't need to configure you all server just only update on workstation then it will update on all servers another thing is some times yon need to change you ENV variable so that time you can't run you dockesr image for all server instead of these just replace value by suing chef is another best part also for CI/DC part is best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

Here is nothing for dislike, but If they provide us containerization with server configuration like dockers with chef that time it will really easy to handle and many people will switch on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:

If you want both CI/CD and server configuration in good manner that time use chef Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had one project in which we white label all things and deployed code on a different server for every client, so at that time, I needed to deploy code on 24 servers, and 70% of work for all servers were the same that time the first time I used chef and It reduced my working time from 2 weeks to 2 days and some time clint give updated information about his env like SMTP or third party URL so that time chef really helpfull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from benny Vasquez of Progress Chef

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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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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/2/2022

"devops engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

large community of users, lots of resources on the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

nothing so far, not sure why i cant submit this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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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!!!!

Lethesh M.

Assistant Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/1/2022

"Chef for cooking safe security"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

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.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

Compatibility with different programming languages such as python. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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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.

Nikhil B.

Platform Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/17/2022

"Chef reviews"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

The vast variety of receipies in the community. Almost every tool installation has their own recipe. And easy management of central store for receipies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

The configuration tree for the receipe can be bit less complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from benny Vasquez of Progress Chef

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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!

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Yogesh R.

Principal DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Chef Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Its very good tool to setup configuration management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

its a agent based tool thats why we need to install agent everytiem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/20/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Chef Configuration Management tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Most of our client uses 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.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

It is very complex tool and The Chef-client agent needs to be run on the nodes frequently to update the details of it state to master. And also to index the nodes based on tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:

Yes, Centralized Configuration Management; Chef really excels at that as it provides a wide range of features that are well thought of, such as data bags, encrypted data bags, roles, shared repositories, cookbooks versioning, environment locking..etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Progress Chef solving and how is that benefiting you?

Chef is really great when teams are attempting to migrate over from legacy systems. In our case, it was a switch over from AIX to Linux. Thus, it was a great opportunity to use Chef to build out deployment cookbooks that could then be used win order to set up the new servers in preparation for the upgrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/11/2019

"Easy to deploy with Chef"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

We have build the scripts which makes it very easy to deploy with Chef. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

If something goes wrong its not easy to debug Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiman N.

DevOps Principal Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/1/2018

"A Great Configuration Management tool"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

- 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.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

- 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.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/25/2018

"Cooking with infrastructure as code"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Once you're familiar with Chef, it's a very powerful tool for ensuring that your servers are all provisioned in the exact same way, and committing those choices to source control. There is a fairly active open source, and a lot of community cookbooks already exist for common tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

Reasonably challenging to get up and running with, especially if you aren't coming from a Ruby background. The documentation lags somewhat and I occasionally found myself digging into source code to understand a behavior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.