Chef vs Cloud 66

Overview

Cloud 66

Stacks35

Followers38

Votes91

Chef

Stacks1.3K

Followers1.1K

Votes345

Chef vs Cloud 66: What are the differences?

Chef: Build, destroy and rebuild servers on any public or private cloud. Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others; Cloud 66: Full Stack Container Management as a Service. Cloud 66 makes Ops easy for developers. It is a single tool built for developers to build, configure and maintain servers and Docker containers on your own servers.

Chef can be classified as a tool in the "Server Configuration and Automation" category, while Cloud 66 is grouped under "Continuous Deployment".

Some of the features offered by Chef are:

Access to 800+ Reusable Cookbooks
Integration with Leading Cloud Providers
Enterprise Platform Support including Windows and Solaris

On the other hand, Cloud 66 provides the following key features:

Provision — build your infrastructure from your code.
Backup — peace of mind with regular database backups for all your databases.
Security — Simple firewall management & DDoS protection without the stress.

"Dynamic and idempotent server configuration" is the top reason why over 104 developers like Chef, while over 12 developers mention "Easy provisioning" as the leading cause for choosing Cloud 66.

Chef is an open source tool with 5.86K GitHub stars and 2.36K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Chef's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on Cloud 66, Chef

Anonymous

Sep 17, 2019

Needs advice

I'm just getting started using Vagrant to help automate setting up local VMs to set up a Kubernetes cluster (development and experimentation only). (Yes, I do know about minikube)

I'm looking for a tool to help install software packages, setup users, etc..., on these VMs. I'm also fairly new to Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. What's a good one to start with to learn? I might decide to try all 3 at some point for my own curiosity.

The most important factors for me are simplicity, ease of use, shortest learning curve.

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Detailed Comparison

Cloud 66	Chef
Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.	Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.
With the convenience of PaaS but on any cloud, and in any region, Cloud 66 has persistent storage, custom network configuration, zero downtime deployments, blue/green and canary releases, full databases support, replication & managed backups. With no team size limits, Cloud 66 offers powerful access management, traffic control, firewalls, SSL certificate management, and more.	Access to 800+ Reusable Cookbooks;Integration with Leading Cloud Providers;Enterprise Platform Support including Windows and Solaris;Create, Bootstrap and Manage OpenStack Clouds;Easy Installation with 'one-click' Omnibus Installer;Automatic System Discovery with Ohai;Text-Based Search Capabilities;Multiple Environment Support;"Knife" Command Line Interface;"Dry Run" Mode for Testing Potential Changes;Manage 10,000+ Nodes on a Single Chef Server;Available as a Hosted Service;Centralized Activity and Resource Reporting;"Push" Command and Control Client Runs;Multi-Tenancy;Role-Based Access Control [RBAC];High Availability Installation Support and Verification;Centralized Authentication Using LDAP or Active Directory
Statistics
Stacks 35	Stacks 1.3K
Followers 38	Followers 1.1K
Votes 91	Votes 345
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Easy provisioning 11 Easy scaling 10 Security 8 Great Support 8 Monitoring	Pros 110 Dynamic and idempotent server configuration 76 Reusable components 47 Integration testing with Vagrant 43 Repeatable 30 Mock testing with Chefspec
Integrations
Honeybadger Linode Rackspace Cloud Servers Weave Google Kubernetes Engine Zube DigitalOcean Logentries Azure Kubernetes Service Google Compute Engine	Amazon EC2 Rackspace Cloud Servers Microsoft Azure HP Cloud Compute Joyent Cloud

What are some alternatives to Cloud 66, Chef?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Ansible

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.

Clever Cloud

Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Google App Engine

Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.

Buddy

Git platform for web and software developers with Docker-based tools for Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Terraform

With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Capistrano

Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.

Puppet Labs

Puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Chef are:

Access to 800+ Reusable Cookbooks
Integration with Leading Cloud Providers
Enterprise Platform Support including Windows and Solaris

On the other hand, Cloud 66 provides the following key features:

Provision — build your infrastructure from your code.
Backup — peace of mind with regular database backups for all your databases.
Security — Simple firewall management & DDoS protection without the stress.

Chef is an open source tool with 5.86K GitHub stars and 2.36K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Chef's open source repository on GitHub.

Chef vs Cloud 66