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Chef Automate

byProgress Software
in
3.7
Market Presence: Continuous Configuration Automation Tools (Transitioning to Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools), DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms)

Overview

Product Information on Chef Automate

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Chef Automate?

Chef Automate is a software designed to support infrastructure automation, compliance, and continuous delivery. The software provides visualization tools, compliance dashboards, and workflow automation features that enable organizations to manage infrastructure as code across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Chef Automate integrates with DevOps pipelines to streamline configuration management and policy enforcement, offering monitoring and reporting capabilities that help ensure consistent system states. It addresses the business problem of manual infrastructure management by facilitating automatic provisioning, configuration, and remediation, aiming to improve operational efficiency and collaboration among development, operations, and security teams.

Chef Automate Pricing

Chef Automate software uses a subscription-based pricing model which typically charges organizations based on the number of nodes or systems managed. Pricing tiers often vary according to features, automation capabilities, and support levels with options for annual or multi-year agreements. A free trial may be available for evaluation purposes but ongoing use requires a paid subscription.

Overall experience with Chef Automate

Senior Oracle Developer
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Achieving Consistent Environment Deploys with Chef Automate”

4.0
Jan 15, 2025
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IT MANAGER
<50M USD, Hardware
CRITICAL

“Addressing the Complexity of Chef Cookbooks: A User's Perspective”

3.0
Jan 8, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a company that aids businesses in achieving faster innovation cycles, fueling growth and success. It provides top quality products for the development, deployment and management of high-impact applications. The company's services ensure the creation of necessary applications and user experiences, offers flexibility in how and where to deploy and facilitates the safe and secure management of all these processes. This comprehensive solution makes Progress an essential resource for numerous enterprises, software companies and developers, supporting them in meeting their defined objectives.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1981
Head office location
Burlington, MA, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.progress.com/

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Peer Discussions

Chef Automate Reviews and Ratings

3.7

(36 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
33%
4 Star
58%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Senior Oracle Developer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Achieving Consistent Environment Deploys with Chef Automate

    4.0
    Jan 15, 2025
    Chef Automate is useful when it comes to configuration management and its automation specifically where there is no reliable drift detection and remediation. This puts a lot of work on our team to manually look for configuration differences and make corrections on them.
  • Senior Oracle Developer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Achieving Consistent Environment Deploys with Chef Automate

    4.0
    Jan 15, 2025
    Chef Automate is useful when it comes to configuration management and its automation specifically where there is no reliable drift detection and remediation. This puts a lot of work on our team to manually look for configuration differences and make corrections on them.
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Reviewer Insights for: Chef Automate
Performance of Chef Automate Across Market Features

Chef Automate Likes & Dislikes

Like

I have found the Chef Automate tool especially useful owing to its infrastructure as code or IaC model. By defining configurations as code we achieved the same level of environment consistency in our deploys while significantly reducing errors.

Like

I have found the Chef Automate tool especially useful owing to its infrastructure as code or IaC model. By defining configurations as code we achieved the same level of environment consistency in our deploys while significantly reducing errors.

Like

I have found the Chef Automate tool especially useful owing to its infrastructure as code or IaC model. By defining configurations as code we achieved the same level of environment consistency in our deploys while significantly reducing errors.

Dislike

Chef cookbooks are the building blocks for configuration management and can become complex and hard to manage, especially so in large environments. Fixing entangled dependencies between cookbooks is a real pain and can take hours if not days.

Dislike

Chef cookbooks are the building blocks for configuration management and can become complex and hard to manage, especially so in large environments. Fixing entangled dependencies between cookbooks is a real pain and can take hours if not days.

Dislike

Chef cookbooks are the building blocks for configuration management and can become complex and hard to manage, especially so in large environments. Fixing entangled dependencies between cookbooks is a real pain and can take hours if not days.