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.

Seller

Progress Software

Discussions

Progress Chef Community

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Jennifer Meyer (Customer Advocacy Manager)

Used by Infosys and 2 others

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

3 months

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/20/2022

"Chef Inspec enforces CIS compliance rules"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Chef Inspec has an easy-to-understand human-readable format. We implemented the CIS benchmarks for Red Hat Linux as Inspec rules quickly and with minimal error. Now, all our systems get scanned daily for CIS compliance and non-complying systems are few. Chef Inspec is also run as part of the new system build process, so CIS compliance is there from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

If you program in Ruby you might want to use a lot of native Ruby in Chef Inspec recipes. Avoid the temptation. First, see if there is a native Chef Inspec function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Thank you so much for your insight and feedback.

Srinivas V.

DevSecOps Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/25/2022

"Amazing Conference for Newbies!"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

The flexibility to attend virtually was very convenient, which helped me to participate in the conference at my own pace. The way marketing was done to attend the meeting was also fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

Nothing that I could think of. Maybe LinkedIn marketing about the conference would be much better as I personally think that many more audience could have attended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Thanks and if you have any future suggestions, feedback, and input please don't hesitate to reach out to me @ michelle.sebek@progress.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2022

"DevSecOps via code"

4/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

I like the fact that you can control your Operations via code. This allows you create a server repeatedly with changes can be made with very little effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

To get to good DevSecOps a lot of code needs to be written. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Thank you so much for your time and input. As I mentioned before we are looking into variations that can help you without as much coding. Check out our newsletter for more details.

Verified User in Accounting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/17/2022

"I love Chef!"

3/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

The biggest downside is that we have to use WSL to use test kitchen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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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

Verified User in Capital Markets

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/22/2022

"Amazing tool to maintain large IT infrastructure"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

The biggest upside is the ability to maintain IT infrastructure config as code. This allows for easy scaling and management of resources. It also ensures no unplanned configuration drift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

The minor inconvenience with using chef is handling the installation of the chef client on the remote hosts.

I think it would be better if chef provides an easier tooling to manage the initial setup/installation of the chef-client on the hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Thanks for the amazing review! We are glad you use our service and benefit from our scalability. We are looking into a better experience for installations and migrations and should have a solution soon.

Sarthak S.

SDE2

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/25/2022

"Progress Chef is an excellent tool for devops automation."

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Progress Chef is an amazing tool for devops automation. The ease with which we can configure the instructions using receipes and cookbooks are the best feature. It is implemented using Ruby language which is super easy to understand and use as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

The chef workstation for development for cookbooks and recipes should possible be replaced by something of a UI based. Something similar to Jenkins which can provide easy configuration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Sarthak, Thank you so much for your feedback and appreciate your insight on improvements. We have things into our pipeline for our roadmaps, keep on the lookout. We will be sharing more details in Boston at ChefConf, hope to see you there Sarthak https://www.chef.io/chefconf/registration.

siva durga prasad p.

consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/17/2022

"Its good tool for pull model for both windows and Linux nodes"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

We like to use this for push model for CIS benchmark configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

It is good if we can have push model to use to deploy configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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Siva, Great news we are working on something to help and should be live within the first quarter.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/1/2022

"Chef makes managing IaaS resources easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Chef provides us with the ability to manage infrastructure (specifically servers or IaaS resources) in a scalable way across platforms and locations. Its ease of use and common language across operating systems give the ability to easily bridge gaps between teams and understanding, thus breaking down knowledge silos and facilitating the ownership of infrastructure code by traditional application teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

Sometimes the learning curve can be steep for organizations that do not have an in-house subject matter expert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Progress Chef:

When implementing Chef, it's important to remember this is not something that can be rolled out overnight. There are several pieces to the puzzle, and making sure you get it right from the start instead of rushing a production solution is key to your success with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Chef provides a great platform for enabling the management of on-prem or cloud virtual machines. It uses a DSL based on Ruby to make the management of these resources easy to capture, in code, in the same way regardless of platform or operating system. This is specifically useful when working to scale across a multi-platform organization because it gets everyone speaking the same language while giving automation coverage that is managed singly regardless of OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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This is great feedback and check out our free learning platform https://learn.chef.io/. Note, we are consistently updating our training modes and have professional services that can help make the learning curve manageable and helps you to become a in-house SME. Thanks again for your time, insight, and recommendations.

Verified User in Computer Networking

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/17/2022

"Good tool for Cloud support"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Progress Chef?

Agnostic tool that can provide support across cloud environments. Avoiding code lock-in is a best practice for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Progress Chef?

There are dependencies across versions that can problematic. Changes to the user interface were not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from michelle sebek of Progress Chef

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We are glad you like the single source for automation to maximize the value of the scripts, and deployment speeds. We are working to improve our offerings and version dependencies. Thanks for taking the time to let us know how Chef works for you and your organization.