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Chef

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Pliant

Pliant.io
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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

Pliant’s solution for IT Process Automation simplifies, streamlines, and secures how teams build and deploy automation. Reduce human error, ensure compliance, and elevate your efficiency, with Pliant. Ingest existing automation and write new automation with single-pane orchestration. Ensure compliance using consistent, practical built-in governance. Pliant has abstracted thousands of vendor APIs to create intelligent action blocks allowing users to drag-and-drop blocks, rather than writing and rewriting lines of code. From a single platform, citizen developers are able to build consistent and meaningful automation across platforms, services, and applications in minutes — maximizing value across the entire technology stack in one place. ​With​ ​our​ ​ability​ ​to​ ​add​ ​new​ ​APIs​ ​in​ ​15​ ​business​ ​days,​ ​anything that​ ​is​ ​not​ ​already​ ​out​ ​of​ ​the​ ​box​ ​will​ ​be​ ​in​ ​an​ ​industry​ ​leading​ ​timeframe.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

IT professionals and anyone searching for a solution to optimize their infrastructure

Audience

Process automation platform that simplifies, streamlines, and secures how IT teams build and deploy automation

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.8 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • We use Pliant almost exclusively to provision bare metal. we deploy and operate infrastructure for a number of carrier accounts on a global scale and use Pliant to do the repeatable work.
  • I like that they offer a free version of the product so i could just try it out. I wanted to play with an automation tool that wasn't just for kids. I didn't want to pay or pay much.
  • The API gateway they have makes this tool so much more valuable than some of the other solutions out there. We found pliant in the marketplace to automate some network config and now i'm using it build and package my own APIs.
  • Pliant has a ton of APIs available to use immediately. We were able to integrate our software system into more than 5 external APIs within the first 24 hours and we have not gone back because of how scalable the product is with our needs.
  • Pliant provided numerous integrations making Pliant a very easy tool to use for any company or organization.

Cons

  • This is more us than them, but because they're earlier in their maturity they weren't an approved vendor in our system so we had to look at incumbents first.
  • I'd really like to be able to add credits to get a little more functionality, but overall it's good and surprisingly capable for building automations -- they have tons of integrations.
  • Their free version has these guides that really help with onboarding, but when we upgraded to their starter edition they went away. Would really like to have them as an option.
  • Currently, we do not have really any cons associated with their product. I do wish there were more options for templates available but their support team has been amazing in helping to build those out for us because once there is a template it can be used over and over again.
  • Pliant needs better integration with Angular or React to allow custom user portals for better optimization of the user experience.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Progress Software
Founded: 1981
United States
www.chef.io

Company Information

Pliant.io
Founded: 2017
United States
pliant.io

Alternatives

Alternatives

Resolve

Resolve

Resolve Systems
Ansible

Ansible

Red Hat
Ansible

Ansible

Red Hat

Categories

Categories

Configuration Management Features

Access Control / Permissions
Application Deployment
Automated Provisioning
Infrastructure Automation
Node Management
Orchestration
Reporting Analytics / Visualization
Task Management

DevOps Features

Approval Workflow
Dashboard
KPIs
Policy Management
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Release Management
Timeline Management
Troubleshooting Reports

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Slack
Ansible
Axonius
Compass
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager
Fidelis Halo
JFrog Pipelines
Mist
OverOps
Pica8 PICOS
Proxmox VE
Resolve
SaltStack
Sensu
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Splunk Cloud Platform
phoenixNAP

Integrations

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Slack
Ansible
Axonius
Compass
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager
Fidelis Halo
JFrog Pipelines
Mist
OverOps
Pica8 PICOS
Proxmox VE
Resolve
SaltStack
Sensu
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Splunk Cloud Platform
phoenixNAP
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