We performed a comparison between Chef and Microsoft Azure DevOps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is automation."
"We have had less production issues since using Chef to automate our provisioning."
"The most valuable feature is its easy configuration management, optimization abilities, complete infrastructure and application automation, and its superiority over other similar tools."
"I wanted to monitor a hybrid cloud environment, one using AWS and Azure. If I have to provision/orchestrate between multiple cloud platforms, I can use Chef as a one-stop solution, to broker between those cloud platforms and orchestrate around them, rather than going directly into each of the cloud-vendors' consoles."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"This solution has improved my organization in the way that deployment has become very quick and orchestration is easy. If we have thousands of servers we can easily deploy in a small amount of time. We can deploy the applications or any kind of announcements in much less time."
"The most important thing is it can handle a 100,000 servers at the same time easily with no time constraints."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"It is possible to add third-party extensions to increase the usability of the product."
"The work items option is incredibly flexible."
"Before using this solution, we had to deploy our applications, from pre-production to production, manually."
"The pricing seems to be reasonable."
"It's a great product for the CI/CD process."
"The extensibility of the work item forms and customizations as well as the backend API to query the data, et cetera, and manipulate the data programmatically are all very valuable aspects of the product."
"There are a lot of helpful features available for tracking dependencies."
"You get a complete solution with Azure DevOps. You can do everything in one place, starting from requirement gathering until you release the product. It is a reliable, scalable, and handy product."
"Third-party innovations need improvement, and I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."
"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."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
"If they can improve their software to support Docker containers, it would be for the best."
"Support and pricing for Chef could be improved."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"I have not been able to use the integration with automation features, such as test management automation, with a framework that is written in Java."
"When converting to DevOps, it was difficult to map."
"I can't think of anything I would like to improve, since I don't have complete knowledge of the platform yet. I'm sure that as I gain more experience, I will understand it better. The price could maybe be cheaper, but I'm sure I'll have more ideas as to improvements and additional features once I've used it more."
"I think Azure DevOps could improve the traceability or business intelligence about the execution of DevOps processes."
"The user management in the solution could improve."
"The UI could be improved."
"I would like to see DevOps have the ability to give us something with a compatibility or traceability matrix."
"We would like some bidirectional synchronization. It's the requirement if you want to analyze it to software requirements, et cetera. That's something that most of the tools aren't that good at."
Chef is ranked 15th in Release Automation with 18 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 127 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Azure DevOps 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 Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, SaltStack and BigFix, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management. See our Chef vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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