Chef vs. CodeNOW Comparison


Chef Progress Software 4.0 out of 5 stars	CodeNOW Stratox Cloud Native 5.0 out of 5 stars
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		Related Products Flagsmith Flagsmith is a fully supported open-source feature flag, remote config, and A/B testing service. Use our hosted API, deploy to your own private cloud, or run on-premise. Create and manage feature flags across web, mobile, and server-side applications. Wrap a section of code with a flag, and then use Flagsmith to toggle that feature on or off for different environments, users, or user segments. Feature flags – Release features with phased rollouts and instant rollback capabilities. Remote config – Toggle individual features on and off, and make changes without deploying new code. A/B and multivariate testing – Use segments to run A/B and multivariate tests on new features. Introduce beta programs to get early user feedback. Organization management – Projects, and roles for team members help keep your deployment organized. Integrations – Connect to your favorite tools. 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Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics. Real-time dashboards, policy-based monitoring, advanced alerting, and 40+ automated response actions—including remote script execution, service restart, process termination, and device reboot—support centralized monitoring and automated remediation. NetCrunch runs on Windows Server and can monitor infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments. 4.6 out of 5 stars 165 Ratings Visit Website for AdRem NetCrunch JS7 JobScheduler JS7 JobScheduler is an Open Source workload automation system designed for performance, resilience and security. It provides unlimited performance for parallel execution of jobs and workflows. JS7 offers cross-platform job execution, managed file transfer, complex no-code job dependencies and a real REST API. Platforms - Cloud scheduling from Containers for Docker®, Kubernetes®, OpenShift® etc. - True multi-platform scheduling on premises for Windows®, Linux®, AIX®, Solaris®, macOS® etc. - Hybrid use for cloud and on premises User Interface - Modern, no-code GUI for inventory management, monitoring and control with web browsers - Near real-time information brings immediate visibility of status changes and log output of jobs and workflows - Multi-client capability, role based access management High Availability - Redundancy and Resilience based on asynchronous design and autonomous Agents - Clustering for all JS7 products, automatic fail-over and manual switch-over 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Rating Visit Website for JS7 JobScheduler EZO AssetSonar AssetSonar is a comprehensive IT asset management platform that provides real-time visibility into your entire digital infrastructure. Track and optimize hardware, software, and license management to reduce risks, control IT spend, and improve compliance. AssetSonar is an IT asset management and IT service management platform that provides real-time visibility across your entire digital infrastructure. With native ITSM capabilities, AssetSonar helps track and optimize hardware, software, licenses, and service workflows, reducing risks, controlling IT expenditures, and enhancing compliance. The platform features real-time asset context via its IT Graph, which links tickets, assets, software, and users, enabling faster issue resolution and improved decision-making. 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Chef: About Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code. Chef Infrastructure Management ensures configurations are applied consistently in every environment with infrastructure management automation. Chef Compliance makes it easy to maintain and enforce compliance across the enterprise. Deliver successful application outcomes consistently at scale with Chef App Delivery. Chef Desktop allows IT teams to automate the deployment, management, and ongoing compliance of IT resources. Ensure configurations are applied consistently in every environment. Powerful policy-based configuration management system software. Runbook automation to consistently define, package & deliver applications. IT automation & DevOps dashboards for operational visibility.	CodeNOW: About CodeNOW is the DevOps platform for businesses that want the same excellence in software delivery as digital leaders without the large IT investments and the distraction from their core business. CodeNOW is listed by Gartner as a DevOps Value Stream Delivery Platform (DevOps VSDP), which Gartner sees entering the mainstream in 2023. CodeNOW is a cloud-native, cloud-agnostic DevOps VSDP that helps companies deliver natively scalable, highly available, resilient digital services that run safely on multiple clouds. CodeNOW integrates into a single cohesive product over 40 battle-tested open-source multi-point solutions (Gitlab, Swagger, Karate, SonarQube, Nexus, Tekton, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Istio, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, and more) and covers the full software delivery life cycle. CodeNOW customers experience no vendor lock-in nor maintenance costs (PaaS model). They do more with the team they already have vs. recruiting of extra expensive, hard-to-find DevOps engineers
Chef: Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	CodeNOW: Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Chef: Audience IT professionals and anyone searching for a solution to optimize their infrastructure	CodeNOW: Audience All key participants in the software delivery lifecycle (developers, DevOps/Ops teams, technical leads, architects) who want to deliver software in a cloud-native way, i.e. with native high availability, resilience, self-recovery, and agility — without recruiting expensive, hard-to-find specialists.
Chef: Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported	CodeNOW: Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
Chef: API Offers API Not Supported	CodeNOW: API Offers API Not Supported
Chef: Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos	CodeNOW: Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos
Chef: Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported	CodeNOW: Pricing €9 per month Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
Chef: Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.0 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	CodeNOW: Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Chef: Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Large number of templates. Cookbooks make implementation faster. Open Source. Community support is huge. Good documentation. Cons Needs better integration with other DevOps tools. Initial learning curve is steep. A bit harder to manage than other alternatives.	CodeNOW: Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The ease of daily tasks, which I have to do as developer/architect. Compared to CLI tools, here I have Self Serving Portal, which guides me through necessary steps. Those steps also have enough levels of freedom to support variety of daily tasks. So we can focus more on development of business features rather than dancing around infrastructure and invest in own infrastructure / platform engineers. Cons Well, hard to find. There is always list of features. CodeNOW does care about customers, so eventual suggestions are properly maintained and we know, when such are enqueued to development and when is released.
Chef: Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Not Supported	CodeNOW: Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported
Chef: Company Information Progress Software Founded: 1981 United States www.chef.io	CodeNOW: Company Information Stratox Cloud Native Czech Republic www.codenow.com
Chef: Alternatives SaltStack 5.0 out of 5 stars	CodeNOW: Alternatives GitLab 4.4 out of 5 stars
Chef: Ansible Red Hat 5.0 out of 5 stars	CodeNOW: Copado
Chef: CFEngine	CodeNOW: Digital.ai Continuum Digital.ai
Chef: Puppet Enterprise Perforce	CodeNOW: JFrog
Chef: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat View All	CodeNOW: Devtron View All
Chef: Categories Cloud Compliance Supported Cloud Infrastructure Automation Supported Configuration Management Supported Continuous Delivery Supported DevOps Supported IT Automation Supported Release Management Supported Runbook Automation Supported Software Configuration Management (SCM) Supported	CodeNOW: Categories Application Development Supported Continuous Delivery Supported Continuous Integration Supported Platform as a Service (PaaS) Supported Value Stream Management Supported
Chef: Show More Features Configuration Management Features Access Control / Permissions Supported Application Deployment Supported Automated Provisioning Supported Infrastructure Automation Supported Node Management Supported Orchestration Supported Reporting Analytics / Visualization Supported Task Management Supported DevOps Features Approval Workflow Not Supported Dashboard Supported KPIs Not Supported Policy Management Not Supported Portfolio Management Not Supported Prioritization Not Supported Release Management Supported Timeline Management Supported Troubleshooting Reports Supported
Chef: Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported Armis Centrix Supported Azure Marketplace Supported CoreStack Supported Corz Cloud Supported Cutover Supported CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Supported F5 BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender Supported F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation Service Supported GenRocket Supported IBM DevOps Deploy Supported Microsoft Azure Supported Mir Display Server Supported RunCode Supported SecretHub Supported Sensu Supported Snow Commander Supported Sonatype Nexus Repository Supported StackStorm Supported env0 Supported Show More Integrations View All 80 Integrations	CodeNOW: Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Not Supported Armis Centrix Not Supported Azure Marketplace Not Supported CoreStack Not Supported Corz Cloud Not Supported Cutover Not Supported CyberArk Privileged Access Manager Not Supported F5 BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender Not Supported F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation Service Not Supported GenRocket Not Supported IBM DevOps Deploy Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported Mir Display Server Not Supported RunCode Not Supported SecretHub Not Supported Sensu Not Supported Snow Commander Not Supported Sonatype Nexus Repository Not Supported StackStorm Not Supported env0 Not Supported Show More Integrations
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