Name: Chef Automate
Rating: 3.8 (54 reviews)

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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.

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

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.

IT MANAGER

<50M USD, Hardware

CRITICAL

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

3.0

Jan 8, 2025

Chef Automate helps in the deployment and ensures conformity to best practices. Improvements in the management of dependencies in cookbooks would greatly enhance maintainability and lessen the onset of trouble-shooting problems.

About Company

Company Description

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

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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Performance of Chef Automate Across Market Features

Chef Automate Likes & Dislikes

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.

Chef Automate enables me to describe and control the state of our servers in code. This has made our deployments more consistent and there are fewer mistakes made.

Provide a collection of modules and configuration recipes, you can integrate with Git which everyone can use it and the knife tool is awesome.

In some cases, the settings of the actual individual host might considerably deviate from the stated code base. Such an approach leads to much inconsistency, which in turn leads to a management nightmare in the planning and production processes.

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.

If is not that easy to learn, the learning curve is really long and you need to get use to use and read a lot to get the enough expertise to handle it properly.

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<50M USD

IT Services

Review Source

Achieving Consistent Environment Deploys with Chef Automate

Hardware

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

Solution Architect

1B-10B USD

Transportation

Good product, could be enhanced.

Aug 31, 2021

The product is dependable and stable. It is clumsy to configure and code the recipes. It is left to the consumer to define a config management process for the recipes and cookbooks. SysAdmin teams not well versed in programming have a steep learning curve.

Customer Support Engineer

Great operational, complance and workflow events!

Apr 16, 2020

Chef Automate arrange a suit of capabilites that help our workflow, node visibility and compliance. This one as well integrate with Open source features such as Habitat and Chef itself. This one comes with a complete support service for an entire infraestructure including the open source products. Provides a vire of the operational, compliance and workflow events to continuos delivery infraestructure and applications.

Technical Lead

50M-1B USD

Automate task in IT

Jan 7, 2020

->Chef has helped us to automate things . ->Easy to remember the things we implemented in the servers .