Chef BYOL

What do you like best about the product?

I like Progress Chef for its visibility and monitoring capabilities. It allows us to easily track Chef-managed VMs, verify they are checking in successfully, and quickly identify systems that require attention. It helps us see which VMs are healthy, failing, missing, or checking in as expected, and when a system stops reporting, we can identify and investigate it immediately.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Progress Chef to monitor and track VMs, ensuring regular check-ins and compliance. It solves the challenge of monitoring managed VMs and provides visibility to quickly identify systems needing attention, helping maintain our infrastructure standards.

What do you like best about the product?

This works on pull mechanism also configured bulk servers in a single go

What do you dislike about the product?

As there are some clouds like terraform, it do not support server of it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automating the large numbers of servers in single go that reduces the manual work

What do you like best about the product?

The product is super easy when it comes to usage

What do you dislike about the product?

Implementation could have been made less complex

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Configuration of remote servers

What do you like best about the product?

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 the product?

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 the product 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.

What do you like best about the product?

It is super easy to use, You can create groups that are helpful

What do you dislike about the product?

Maintainence is difficult since it has many parts

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped me in configuration of my cloud servers

What do you like best about the product?

Securities and compliance integration and application packaging

What do you dislike about the product?

Support and problem solving with the prod is concerning

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automating the workflow and applicationmodernization

What do you like best about the product?

There are multiple reasons why i love chef, like being open source, auotmate the configuration, accuracy.

What do you dislike about the product?

For the general audience (college students) not hear about chef easily. They could have better marketing around it.

What problems is the product 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.

What do you like best about the product?

Broad user community
ChefConf is an excellent conference

What do you dislike about the product?

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 the product 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.

What do you like best about the product?

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 the product?

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 the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Progress chef for automating the Infrastructure deployment and Configuration tasks management.

What do you like best about the product?

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 the product?

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 the product 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.