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."The solution is easy to use, simple to understand for those new to using it, and combined with the other Microsoft products it makes for an overall good package."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"The solution is stable."
"Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"The product is useful for automating processes."
"Chef recipes are easy to write and move across different servers and environments."
"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."
"It streamlined our deployments and system configurations across the board rather than have us use multiple configurations or tools, basically a one stop shop."
"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."
"Deployment has become quick and orchestration is now easy."
"The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to process patching and updates completely offline without an internet connection."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The product is convenient to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"The Mac integration has room for improvement."
"The technical support could be improved."
"They need to add more group policies. Intune currently does not have many group policies that you can deploy. Its reporting, which is very limited at the moment, also needs improvement. It will be great if they can add report customization. Its stability needs to be improved. Sometimes, when you register a device in Intune, it doesn't show up instantly on the engine portal on the admin side. They need to provide better support for complicated issues. They also have a long turnaround time."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"The policies we had in SCCM and AD offered features that are missing from Microsoft Intune."
"Since we are heading to IoT, this product should consider anything related to this."
"There appears to be no effort to fix the command line utility functionality, which is definitely broken, provides a false positive for a result when you perform the operation, and doesn't work."
"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"They could provide more features, so the recipes could be developed in a simpler and faster way. There is still a lot of room for improvement, providing better functionalities when creating recipes."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
"The agent on the server sometimes acts finicky."
"I would rate this solution a nine because our use case and whatever we need is there. Ten out of ten is perfect. We have to go to IOD and stuff so they should consider things like this to make it a ten."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"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 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."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
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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