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DevOps platform which helps firms of all sizes with configuration automation and patch management.
Designed for small to midsize businesses, developers, IT professionals, Config Tool from AWS is a cloud-based that helps businesses assess, audit, and evaluate multi-account AWS environments.
One of the best configuration management tools available in market, because of availability of wide varieties of extensions it helps you to write cookbooks for any kind of platforms.
I for my self hate that mac is not supported as I do have to work on mac from time to time, so you are tied to windows and linux only.
Chef is good for development-focused teams and environments. It's good for enterprises looking for a more mature solution for a heterogeneous environment.
Templating language can be a bit hard to learn especially for those not already familiar with the Ruby programming language.
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.
There is no web console UI to update or manage the configurations.
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.
The architecture of chef server, chef client and chef nodes is difficult to understand for beginners ,Also it have lot of authentication access formalties for setup.
It's is best software for shopping and easy way to shopping and it's has more than millions of product.
A little difficult to understand in the configuration, very difficult to think of doing it yourself without a thorough study of the instrument.
The overall experience with AWS config is excellent and the product is very supportive for all the business processes to be automated and have automations run on schedule to solve business problems.
Since most of the commands are unaware it takes time for new users to get used to it.
AWS config is reliable and allows me to monitor my AWS resources and has a record of changes of configurations as well which is useful for me to monitor and check.
It is a bit more difficult than using other cloud products.
Overall, my experience with AWS config has been positive as it is reliable and gets the job done. I primarily use it to monitor my AWS resources and any historical changes in configurations.
Some time the Config Rules are hard to comprehend and arrange. They could be made simple or have GUI to arrange them.
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