Chef Enterprise Automation Stack 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is an automation platform that configures and manages infrastructures and aims to increase software innovation velocity. Chef deploys servers to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter what size the infrastructure and imposes self-reliance across the users’ development and operations teams. Organizations are composed of one or more workstations, a server, and the number of nodes (whether 50 or 500,000) that are configured and maintained by the chef-client. Users can write dynamic policies that will create and manage the infrastructure, as well as search real-time data. ‘Cookbooks’ and ‘recipes’ are used to communicate information to the chef-client. For example, how each node should be configured. Chef Enterprise Automation Stack's delivery reinforces DevOps to deliver software and applications rapidly and safely with with full traceability of changes in any project. The dashboard shows users easy to understand views of each project, where it is in the pipeline and it's advancement, as well as information on who did what, and when. The node dashboard lets users see all their managed infrastructures, alerting them of any failures with Chef's audit and compliance features. The audit rules can be customized and sent in real-time to external systems such as email, Slack or Splunk.