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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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    What do you like most about Chef?
    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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    What needs improvement with Chef?
    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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    Ranking
    27th
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    48
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    12th
    out of 32 in Release Automation
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    629
    Comparisons
    436
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    350
    Rating
    6.8
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    Overview

    Mastering change in the world of SAP is mission critical for business leaders. Yet, navigating this complex landscape can be daunting, leading to inefficiencies and even downtime, costing considerable time and money. Basis Technologies equips you with the market-leading solutions to take command of change across your SAP landscape, which is why we’re trusted by many of the world’s best performing businesses. We enable your business to power innovation, drive growth, and eliminate risk across the entire Lifecycle of Change, from discovery to delivery. ActiveControl enables you to navigate complex SAP landscapes with seamless and effective change management, helping you to stay ahead of the competition by embracing continuous innovation while maximizing the value of your SAP processes. With ActiveControl, you can empower your business to own complexity, increase visibility and prevent failure.

    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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    Facebook, Standard Bank, GE Capital, Nordstrom, Optum, Barclays, IGN, General Motors, Scholastic, Riot Games, NCR, Gap
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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 Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Basis ActiveControl is ranked 27th in Release Automation while Chef is ranked 12th in Release Automation with 18 reviews. Basis ActiveControl 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". Basis ActiveControl is most compared with , whereas Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BigFix.

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