--- description: Learn more about Chef Enterprise Automation Stack price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Chef Enterprise Automation Stack Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [DevOps Tools](/directory/31120/devops/software) > [Chef Enterprise Automation Stack](/software/170467/chef) # Chef Enterprise Automation Stack Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/170467/chef Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/170467/chef?page=2) > DevOps platform that automates infrastructure deployment via built-in validations, configuration testing, server data storage, etc. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 36 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Chef Enterprise Automation Stack? Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is used by DevSecOps teams, application developers, IT operations, security professionals, cloud engineers, and enterprises implementing continuous delivery. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 36 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Progress Software - **Location**: Bedford, US - **Founded**: 1991 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 250.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Contact Chef for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Germany, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Alerts/Notifications - Collaboration Tools - Compliance Management - Configuration Management - Continuous Deployment - Continuous Integration - Dashboard - Data Visualization - Real-Time Data - Release Management - Server Monitoring ## Integrations (3 total) - Amazon EC2 - Microsoft Azure - Slack ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [DevOps Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31120/devops/software) ## Related Categories - [DevOps Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/31120/devops/software) - [IT, Server and Network Monitoring Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/32713/server-monitoring/software) - [Configuration Tools Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/32355/configuration-tools/software) - [Application Performance Management Tools](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30208/application-performance-management-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Chef is the best tool to pick form the CM DevOps option as it has the most features that need a CI pipeline need it at the time of development and delivery. Chef is highly scalable with high availability as backup master node is also there. > > **Cons**: Implementation is the most complex part. There should be wizards for the same to make it simple and easy. Master Node can be configured on linux only, So it makes it compulsory to know LINUX while setup of master node. ChefBook is not as easy as yaml scripting language. > > Chef is helping us to configure the build and deploy for the different server at the same time. Chef help us to implement the true DevOps environment for the development and product delivery. ----- ### "Chef - A DevOps Tool to manage your all configuration." — 5.0/5 > **Vandana** | *11 January 2019* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Chef is a powerful configuration management tool that manages and helps in automating the infrastructure with the advance software methodology . It helps in managing the timeline for release. Chef also provide the template infrastructure to configure the module according to the enterprise and DevOps standard. It really helps in deploying the project with the automation. It is written in Ruby and Erlang which run so efficiently on servers without using the must resources. The DevOps methodology helps in making a streamline for configuration and maintenance. > > **Cons**: Implementation of Chef and opting the DevOps methodology is one of the complex part of it. Master Node can be only configurable in Linux\\Unix platform. Learning curves are sharp but the brief documentation help and never let you stuck in any step. > > We manage the application and services so efficiently with it. The chef-solo also helps in learning and implementing the things. On production we use client/server mode to make it more productive. The elastic search indexing help the client node to handle the query in more efficient manner. ----- ### "Good config management tool" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *6 June 2023* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: The agent can be modified to use a specific port which could be an advantage for networks that require common ports like SSH and WinRM to be closed. > > **Cons**: The agent requires more overhead to make sure the updates reach the destination in a large segmented network. ----- ### "A tool for automation of complete infrastructure." — 5.0/5 > **Nidhi** | *15 April 2019* | Computer Games | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Chef is a complete automation tool which help us to build the efficient infrastructure of code. It also helps to simplify the configuration management, monitoring and deployment. The build in templates for cloud and on-premises help to setup the configuration. Integration with different cloud and OS make it dynamic to flexible. Chef is one of the best and easiest tool for configuration management. The event feed provide the one stop notification for our all configurations. The customized compliance help to generate the reports for audits. > > **Cons**: Chef needs to provide the simple wizards to setup the master \& client nodes for different environment. Documentation search engine should be more enhanced. Chef should also come with the PUSH configuration as it is always recommended in such case when our infrastructure is scaling to frequently. > > Chef is one of the best and simplest tool for configuration management and automation for code infrastructures. Chef made the deployment of 500+ hybrid environment of different projects which makes it simple with the help of automation. ----- ### "Chef - A robust configuration management DevOps tool" — 5.0/5 > **Sanchita** | *7 October 2018* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Chef is the one of the robust configuration management tool compared to the current market option. Chef is the DevOps engineers first choice as it is having a large community in the current dedicated market place. Highly scalability feature of the tool make it operation engineer first choice as it make possible to deploy the system with zero outage with the help of docker. Open source code provide the great transparency in the tool. Chef play a vital role in the DevOps software lifecycle as it manage the configuration and help to provide the automatic lifecycle. > > **Cons**: Installation process is bit tricky, specially at the time of configuring master server for it. Master server can be setup on Linux/Unix machine. Chef need code based knowledge for scripting the tool which make it little complex. Documentation is also very large it must come with and fast guide. > > We are using it in our production and Unit Test environment. The automation provide by the DevOps tool is really excellent. We have jump into the Chef Enterprise edition as it really helping us from so many years. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/170467/chef?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/170467/chef) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data