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We performed a comparison between Automic Continuous Delivery for IBM Z and Chef based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "When we're rolling out a new server, we're not using the AWS Marketplace AMI, we're using our own AMI, but we are paying them a licensing fee."
  • "The price per node is a little weird. It doesn't scale along with your organization. If you're truly utilizing Chef to its fullest, then the number of nodes which are being utilized in any particular day might scale or change based on your Auto Scaling groups. How do you keep track of that or audit it? Then, how do you appropriately license it? It's difficult."
  • "The price is always a problem. It is high. There is room for improvement. I do like purchasing on the AWS Marketplace, but I would like the ability to negotiate and have some flexibility in the pricing on it."
  • "Purchasing the solution from AWS Marketplace was a good experience. AWS's pricing is pretty in line with the product's regular pricing. Though instance-wise, AWS is not the cheapest in the market."
  • "We are able to save in development time, deployment time, and it makes it easier to manage the environments."
  • "We are using the free, open source version of the software, which we are happy with at this time."
  • "I wasn't involved in the purchasing, but I am pretty sure that we are happy with the current pricing and licensing since it never comes up."
  • "Pricing for Chef is high."

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    Top Answer:Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Chef?
    Top Answer:Chef is priced based on the number of nodes.
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    Top Answer:Chef does not support the containerized things of Chef products. In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images.
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    32nd
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    20
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    15th
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    Overview

    Modernize your legacy systems.
    We live in the online world. The way of business and technology seems to be all mobile and cloud these days. Nevertheless, mainframes remain paramount and integral to core business transactions worldwide and are here to stay.

    At CA Technologies we feel that continuous delivery for the mainframe holds the key to digital transformation with minimal disruption. The mainframe needs to be connected to your continuous delivery pipelines and DevOps practices in order to be completely agile and responsive to business demands.

    At present most mainframe users face significant challenges that hinder agility:

    Driven by manual interactions–ISPF panels initiate CLIST scripts
    Collaboration of multiple Dev and Ops teams involving lots of processes and procedures
    Applications written many years ago in COBOL and other legacy languages
    Treating the mix of mainframe and distributed apps found in most services differently with dedicated change processes and toolsets
    Mitigating risk and ensure compliance in a highly regulated environment
    Automic Continuous Delivery for IBM Z connects digital and mainframe applications, automates them and incorporates them in an automated workflow.

    Chef, is the leader in DevOps, driving collaboration through code to automate infrastructure, security, compliance and applications. Chef provides a single path to production making it faster and safer to add value to applications and meet the demands of the customer. Deployed broadly in production by the Global 5000 and used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Chef develops 100 percent of its software as open source under the Apache 2.0 license with no restrictions on its use. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack™, a commercial distribution, is developed solely from that open source code and unifies security, compliance, infrastructure and application automation with observability. Chef provides an unequaled developer experience for the Coded Enterprise by enabling users to express infrastructure, security policies and the application lifecycle as code, modernizing development, packaging and delivery of any application to any platform. For more information, visit http://chef.io and follow @chef.

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    Computer Software Company30%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Non Tech Company10%
    Legal Firm10%
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise35%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Automic Continuous Delivery for IBM Z is ranked 32nd in Release Automation while Chef is ranked 15th in Release Automation with 18 reviews. Automic Continuous Delivery for IBM Z is rated 0.0, while Chef is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". Automic Continuous Delivery for IBM Z is most compared with , whereas Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Configuration Manager and SaltStack.

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