105 Progress Chef Reviews
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Chef is an all around wonderful provisioning system. I see the biggest advantage of Chef over its competitors, namely Puppet and Ansible (I don't have experience with any others), is the company and the community it facilitates. The most helpful part of the community is the wide, seemingly all inclusive, range of open source cookbooks available, which for the most part can be used out of the box to provision any system you might be building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Developing new cookbooks—even more so when extending existing ones—for Chef requires a deep knowledge of how Chef works and of Ruby. Just knowing what you want to do is not enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have been working on Opscode Chef, though named is changed to Chef. I must say having worked on this technology for last 4 years now and also having worked on other configuration management system like puppet, anisble and salt. I always like chef for it's flexibility and easy to use features.
Chef does not imposes develoepers/devops to learn and understand any new platform, if some one can understand the basic of ruby, should be more then enough.
The community support is best part of the chef.
Documentation is the thing which you can rely on. There are many open source where it's documentation is not so good and supportive. Does not hold good with chef. Apart of official docs one can find many other posts on blogs on chef.
Over a period of time, chef has become a self sustained in pendent platform itself.
People of built tool of other tools to help many developers and devops. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Couple of tools which are out of the box, yet to see the stable release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the ease of use, specifically the short time required to get set up and start iterating on a project using chef to manage complex configurations across large clusters of servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There a few things I don't like, but one in particular is that when first learning chef I found it hard to find exactly what I needed in the documentation and tutorials. Eventually, however, I was able to dig through enough documentation that I found what I needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The DSL is ruby based, it makes sense, and there is a vibrant community that is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Initial setup can be a bit confusing. Chef-solo, chef-client, chef-zero, etc. Managing cookbooks is also confusing until you set up berkshelf, which is a third-party tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
After use the chef, it's easy and take very less time to set up a production instance(from 2 weeks to 3 hours). It's easy to learn by official docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
a little expensive for side project / start up project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not biased to said that everything from Opscode - Chef was well design, from their solo version to the Chef Provisioning module. You can write and deploy your whole infraestructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Chef Server Operation could give trouble as in performance issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
* Keeps recipes in version control.
* Simple to modify system recipes
* Keeps systems in sync Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
* Can revert developer/administrator changes with little notice.
* Documentation can be out of date, suggesting commands that don't work with no clear suggestion for replacements.
* Individual node configuration is kept separate from recipes, not version controlled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The diverse collection of community cookbooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The lack of maintenance on the majority of community cookbooks, which requires me to re-invent the wheel rather than use a pre-existing framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
When you are a rapid web designer/developer, you never want to be late on delivery.
Chef should be your choice if you want to automate or config a system the way you want.
It's easier than what you might think.
Test it today! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've never had a problem with Chef, so I do not dislike anything about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Once you get running with Chef it's a very useful tool for config management, and a huge step forward over traditional methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The learning curve can be a bit steep, there is plenty of terminology and patterns to wrap your head around. Once it clicks though it's easy enough to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
