# Page 2 | Chef Enterprise Automation Stack Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is Chef Enterprise Automation Stack the right DevOps solution for you? Explore 36 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/170467/Chef/reviews --- Chef Enterprise Automation Stack 4.4 (36) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-36 of 36 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Manager, Digital Analytics - Canada Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Versatile product" September 2, 2018 5.0 Overall versatile and easy to use,takes time to deploy, customization may require scripting knowledge Pros Extendable with scripting language, easy configuration files Cons Other platforms have better pre configured deployment scripts Review Source KS Krishna S. DevOps Engineer Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for building systems the way we want them to be." May 17, 2017 4.0 Pros The best thing about Chef is that we can force servers to have the files we want on them with the content that we want and make sure that packages are installed/updated without much effort. Cons If you decide a file/package should not be placed/installed on a server anymore you have to explicitly state that you want to remove it. Deciding not to install it is not enough. Also, the unit tests have a pretty steep learning curve. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Web Developer Computer Games Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Good automation tool" February 29, 2020 3.0 Happy to use it for automatic deployment when someone else did the hard stuff to configure it. Pros It offered a lot of automation capability, which for the rigth people unlocks deployment of the applications and it's written in Ruby. Cons The documentation was a bit scarce, and the available resources online were not that great at the time I tried this. Review Source Raul D. Software Engineer Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very good ruby based CD and CI tool" May 8, 2018 5.0 Pros It has cloud configuration and automation, it includes management of security, you don't have to be a DevOps to use it, it has a world wide community. Eventhough it is Open Source is really stable, it offers analytics and reporting. Cons It is some how difficult to learn so the initial configurations and process are a bit hard, the delivery process has to be as canonical as posible, its documentation is not in one single container, and it could be difficult to find and review. Review Source VG Vipallav G. Team Lead Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "nice for configuration managenet" May 13, 2018 4.0 Pros good to register nodes, then install cookbook sfrom supermarket. ready to use cookbooks simoly deploy them on registered nodes. Cons 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. Review Source AJ Abhishek J. Student Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "good for CM " April 19, 2018 4.0 Pros it helps in creating different nodes for different envronment and make runlist for each of them seaparately which makes configuration management easy. Cons setting up the environment is difficult and gives many errors which can be avoided by bringing more automation to the process. Review Source vK vijay K. software engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good configuration management tool" April 21, 2018 5.0 Pros Chef is widely used in industry and hence has very good documentation and support. It has been designed for programmers mindset, very convient to write instructions in ruby. It can scale to large environment without much issues. Cons It has pull mechanism and schedules. Hence changes are not immediately observed. It has some learning curve. I found the setup is little bit complicated. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Architect Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "chef alows me to configure management" May 15, 2018 4.0 Pros i have many registered nodes/system which i need to manage and run different scripts chef allows me to download scripts/cookbook from supermarket and i can execute the, on specific nodes. Cons Chef is a complicated software, though it have very huge capabilities but seting up chef architecture require great level of knowledge in devops . Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Développeur indépendant Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "nice too for a server admin" January 10, 2018 4.0 Pros the documentation is very good, I find a lot of informations there besides what is available in other places. Cons 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. Review Source CB Chirag B. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Best Node Manager Tool " November 24, 2018 5.0 Pros This tool has an amazing command line tool which is knife which makes it really easy to connect with different nodes and deploy the containers and files on them. It have really great client and server architecture. Many scripts are already available ready to use. Cons Understanding the tool is tough call in the beginning but once we get the basic terminology and installation clear, this tool is a great fun to use. Review Source SK Sanket K. Student Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "The main thing I liked about chef was that (as I am beginner), they have interactive tutorials." May 9, 2018 4.0 I used it for horizontal scalability in my project. I created dedicated webserver and database server using chef. Pros 1) Easy and user-friendly user interface. 2) Configurations are quite easy. 3) Easy availability of various cookbooks on cookbook hub Cons 1) Some things from tutorial are missing like project can be used directly to create docker image and consequently container, later which can be used for chef-node. Review Source Similar Products Featured