Name: Chef
Brand: Progress Software
Rating: 4.0 (25 reviews)

Ivan Bizhev

DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 22, 2023

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The product has an old technology, though it is useful for automating processes

Pros and Cons

"The product is useful for automating processes."

"It is an old technology."

What is our primary use case?

We were using the tool for managing Kubernetes.

What is most valuable?

The product is useful for automating processes.

What needs improvement?

I did not like the solution. It is an old technology. Compared to Ansible, it just doesn't hold up because we need to deploy a client to each of the services we need to manage, which makes the automation much harder.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool was fairly stable.

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How was the initial setup?

The product was deployed on the cloud.

What other advice do I have?

I would not recommend the solution to others. It depends entirely on how someone’s system is made, but still, I would probably suggest something else entirely. Overall, I rate the tool a four or five out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.