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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.
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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
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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 4.8 / 5 ease 4.8 / 5 features 4.8 / 5 design 4.8 / 5 support 4.8 / 5 Read all reviews
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.
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Company Information Progress Software Founded: 1981 United States www.chef.io	Company Information Pliant.io Founded: 2017 United States pliant.io
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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 API Gateways Supported Cloud Infrastructure Automation Supported Container Orchestration Supported IT Automation Supported IT Management Supported ITSM Supported Network Automation Supported Network Configuration Supported User Provisioning and Governance 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 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
Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported Google Cloud Platform Supported Microsoft Azure Supported Slack Supported AppNeta Not Supported CoreStack Supported Fidelis Halo Supported HubSpot CRM Not Supported IBM SevOne Not Supported Juniper Identity Management Service Not Supported KernelCare Enterprise Supported MicroK8s Supported NetWatch.ai Supported Nutanix AHV Not Supported Omnium Lite Supported OverOps Supported Riverbed NetProfiler Not Supported RunCode Supported SecretHub Supported SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 80 Integrations	Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported Google Cloud Platform Supported Microsoft Azure Supported Slack Supported AppNeta Supported CoreStack Not Supported Fidelis Halo Not Supported HubSpot CRM Supported IBM SevOne Supported Juniper Identity Management Service Supported KernelCare Enterprise Not Supported MicroK8s Not Supported NetWatch.ai Not Supported Nutanix AHV Supported Omnium Lite Not Supported OverOps Not Supported Riverbed NetProfiler Supported RunCode Not Supported SecretHub Not Supported SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Supported Show More Integrations View All 62 Integrations
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