Chef (Progress)
About Chef (Progress)
Chef is available as SaaS, on-premises, or through cloud marketplaces.
Products
- Opsmith: Generates cookbooks, upgrades legacy code, creates compliance profiles and automates tasks.
- Workflow Orchestration: Automates and coordinates workflows such as certificate rotation and controlled rollouts across environments.
- Infrastructure Management: Configures, monitors and maintains infrastructure on cloud or on-premises from a single interface.
- Continuous Compliance: Performs scans, remediates drifts and enforces policies to meet regulatory standards.
Used for
- Designing workflows for incidents, certificate rotation and other planned or ad hoc events.
- Running compliance audits on schedule or on demand.
- Orchestrating disparate DevOps tools and workflows from a single control plane.
- Executing jobs on any node across cloud, on-prem, hybrid or air-gapped setups.
- Standardizing infrastructure configurations across the enterprise.
Who it is for
- Organizations that need to automate and orchestrate infrastructure management jobs critical to business success.
- Organizations tasked with maturing DevOps automation, orchestration and auditing for their entire organization.
- Security-focused organizations aiming to extend DevOps automation to address security and compliance requirements.
From Chef (Progress)'s own website, read 2026-10-23. How we build listings.
How to evaluate Infrastructure as Code
This is how the CIOPages Research Team evaluates this category. It is not an assessment of Chef (Progress). It comes from our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Platforms buyer guide.
25%
Language & Authoring Model
Declarative DSL (HCL) vs. general-purpose language (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#); readability for reviewers vs. expressive power (loops, conditionals, abstractions); module/component reuse and registry maturity; testing and IDE support; learning curve for the people who will actually write infrastructure
20%
State Management & Drift
Where state is stored, remote-state locking to prevent concurrent-apply corruption, state encryption and secret handling, plan/preview fidelity, drift detection and continuous reconciliation, import of existing resources, and blast-radius controls on apply
20%
Policy-as-Code & Governance
OPA/Rego and Sentinel support, pre-apply guardrails (block non-compliant resources, mandatory tags, region/cost limits), RBAC and SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logging, approval workflows, and integration with cost-estimation and security scanning in the pipeline
15%
Provider Ecosystem & Portability
Breadth and quality of providers/resource coverage, day-one support for new cloud services, multi-cloud and on-prem reach, third-party SaaS providers, and how locked-in the resulting code is to one vendor or one cloud
10%
Collaboration & Workflow (TACOS)
Run orchestration and queuing, VCS/PR-driven plans, stack dependencies, self-service environments with TTL/ephemeral teardown, drift remediation workflows, and whether you self-host in CI (Atlantis-style) or buy a managed platform
10%
Licensing & Project Health
License (open-source MPL/Apache vs. source-available BUSL vs. proprietary), governance and ownership after recent M&A, release cadence and roadmap, community/foundation backing (CNCF, Linux Foundation), and how easily you could exit or fork
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Quick Facts
www.chef.io Pricing pageCategoryDevOps & Platform Engineering
SubcategoryInfrastructure as Code
PricingPer node, per year
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