We performed a comparison between Chef and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very easy to use. It has a very easy interface."
"Easy to use."
"It supports end-users who tend to lock their devices quite frequently. Its conditional access policy helps us keep the users logged into their devices."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"One thing that we've been able to do is a tiered permission model, allowing developers and their managers to perform their own operations in lower environments. This means a manager can go in and make changes to a whole environment, whereas a developer with less access may only be able to change individual components or be able to upgrade the version for software that they have control over."
"Automation is everything. Having so many servers in production, many of our processes won't work nor scale. So, we look for tools to help us automate the process, and Chef is one of them."
"The product is useful for automating processes."
"Chef is a great tool for an automation person who wants to do configuration management with infrastructure as a code."
"It is a well thought out product which integrates well with what developers and customers are looking for."
"The most important thing is it can handle a 100,000 servers at the same time easily with no time constraints."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"This solution has improved my organization in the way that deployment has become very quick and orchestration is easy. If we have thousands of servers we can easily deploy in a small amount of time. We can deploy the applications or any kind of announcements in much less time."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"Previously, we were using one server to update from a different repository over the HTTP. We had to manually manage the updates on the repository server. Satellite made the process easier."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"Technical support has been good."
"The product is convenient to use."
"We've been getting reasonable support from Red Hat."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"Data leak prevention can be integrated into it. Currently, it does not have data leak prevention."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"I would rate this solution a nine because our use case and whatever we need is there. Ten out of ten is perfect. We have to go to IOD and stuff so they should consider things like this to make it a ten."
"Since we are heading to IoT, this product should consider anything related to this."
"Third-party innovations need improvement, and I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
"It is an old technology."
"In the future, Chef could develop a docker container or docker images."
"The solution could improve in managing role-based access. This would be helpful."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly."
"The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only."
"The dashboard of Satellite is not encouraging. It does not adequately showcase all the functionality it offers."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
Chef is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Easy configuration management, optimization abilities, and complete infrastructure and application automation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps and BigFix, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager and AWS Systems Manager. See our Chef vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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