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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.	About Flexagon is DevOps and configuration management built for enterprise applications; one platform to automate technical deployments, govern configuration migrations, and maintain a complete audit trail across every environment. It modernizes how enterprises manage every type of change, from code deployments and configuration migrations to compliance, metadata, and data, all from a single governed platform. Flexagon helps teams reduce manual effort, minimize errors, accelerate delivery, meet compliance requirements with built-in approval gates and security controls, and connect existing tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, and test automation tools into one governed pipeline. Its release packaging workflow lets users discover and catalog files, define package content, add, remove, and sequence files, manage user-defined or dynamic packaging, build and deploy packages, associate work items, and manage dependencies and subcomponents.
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Audience IT professionals and anyone searching for a solution to optimize their infrastructure	Audience Enterprise DevOps and IT teams that need to automate software deployments, configuration changes, releases, compliance, and toolchain workflows from one governed platform
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
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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	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
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.
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Company Information Progress Software Founded: 1981 United States www.chef.io	Company Information Flexagon Founded: 2014 United States flexagon.com/platform/
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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	Categories DevOps 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 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
Integrations Armis Centrix Supported Azure DevOps Not Supported Blackfire Supported Chef Infra Supported Compass Supported CyberArk Conjur Not Supported Digital.ai Release Supported Enov8 Supported F5 BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender Supported GitLab Not Supported KernelCare Enterprise Supported MicroK8s Supported Microsoft Azure Supported Multipass Supported Postman Not Supported Resolve Supported Securden Password Vault for Enterprises Supported Splunk Cloud Platform Supported Vulcan Cyber Supported env0 Supported Show More Integrations View All 80 Integrations	Integrations Armis Centrix Not Supported Azure DevOps Supported Blackfire Not Supported Chef Infra Not Supported Compass Not Supported CyberArk Conjur Supported Digital.ai Release Not Supported Enov8 Not Supported F5 BIG-IP DDoS Hybrid Defender Not Supported GitLab Supported KernelCare Enterprise Not Supported MicroK8s Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported Multipass Not Supported Postman Supported Resolve Not Supported Securden Password Vault for Enterprises Not Supported Splunk Cloud Platform Not Supported Vulcan Cyber Not Supported env0 Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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