We performed a comparison between Chef and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"The features I found most valuable in Intune are its user visibility and troubleshooting options."
"The conditional access policies that we set up are very useful."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The technical support of Microsoft Intune is good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The most valuable feature is its easy configuration management, optimization abilities, complete infrastructure and application automation, and its superiority over other similar tools."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"The most valuable feature is the language that it uses: Ruby."
"Manual deployments came to a halt completely. Server provisioning became lightning fast. Chef-docker enabled us to have fewer sets of source code for different purposes. Configuration management was a breeze and all the servers were as good as immutable servers."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"Automation is everything. Having so many servers in production, many of our processes won't work nor scale. So, we look for tools to help us automate the process, and Chef is one of them."
"Chef recipes are easy to write and move across different servers and environments."
"If you're handy enough with DSL and you can present your own front-facing interface to your developers, then you can actually have a lot more granular control with Chef in operations over what developers can perform and what they can't."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"Technical support has been good."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that you don't have to expose your mission-critical environment to the Internet. With the Satellite system in place, it acts as a barrier between your Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"The configuration and pricing can be improved."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"We faced issues with macOS support. The product should have better inventory and asset management."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"The technical support could be improved."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."
"The AWS monitoring, AWS X-Ray, and some other features could be improved."
"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"There is a slight barrier to entry if you are used to using Ansible, since it is Ruby-based."
"I would like them to add database specific items, configuration items, and migration tools. Not necessarily on the builder side or the actual setup of the system, but more of a migration package for your different database sets, such as MongoDB, your extenders, etc. I want to see how that would function with a transition out to AWS for Aurora services and any of the RDBMS packages."
"The time that it takes in terms of integration. Cloud integration is comparatively easy, but when it comes to two-link based integrations - like trying to integrate it with any monitoring tools, or maybe some other ticketing tools - it takes longer. That is because most of the out-of-the-box integration of the APIs needs some revisiting."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly."
"I would like to see the scalability, user interface, and reporting features improved and for the solution to be simplified. Instead of having complex engineering, it should be simple for the user."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
Chef is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Easy configuration management, optimization abilities, and complete infrastructure and application automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager and AWS Systems Manager. See our Chef vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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