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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 Stackā¢, 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.
The KACE Systems Management Appliance provides a growing organization with comprehensive management of network-connected devices, including servers, PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, tablets, printers, storage, networking gear and the Internet of Things (IoT). KACE can fulfill all of the organization's systems management needs, from initial deployment to ongoing management and retirement.
Chef is ranked 15th in Configuration Management while Quest KACE Systems Management is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 2 reviews. Chef is rated 0.0, while Quest KACE Systems Management is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest KACE Systems Management writes "We can use one image for several different instances, saving a lot of space". Chef is most compared with Ansible, SCCM, BigFix, BMC TrueSight Server Automation and Jenkins, whereas Quest KACE Systems Management is most compared with SCCM, BigFix, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Ansible and GFI LanGuard.
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