You can go through the below table to get an overview of the metrics on which I will be comparing these tools.
Metrics | Chef | Puppet | Ansible | Saltstack |
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Availability | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Ease of Setup | Not very easy | Not very easy | Easy | Not very easy |
Management | Not very easy | Not very easy | Easy | Easy |
Scalability | Highly Scalable | Highly Scalable | Highly Scalable | Highly Scalable |
Configuration language | DSL(Ruby) | DSL(PuppetDSL) | YAML(Python) | YAML(Python) |
Interoperability | High | High | High | High |
Pricing (upto 100 nodes) | $13700 | $11200-$19900 | $10,000 | $15,000(approx.) |
These are many more factors on which you can compare these tools. Let’s dig deeper into each tool and understand the difference between Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs Saltstack.
Product Capabilities | ||
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Chef | Puppet | Ansible |
Continuous delivery with automated workflow | Orchestration | Simple orchestration |
Compliance and security management | Automated provisioning | Streamlined provisioning |
Infrastructure automation | Code and node management | Continuous delivery with automated workflow |
Configuration automation | App deployment | |
Simple visualization and reporting | Security and compliance integration into automated processes | |
High transparency | ||
Role-based access control |
https://www.edureka.co/blog/chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-vs-saltstack/
https://www.veritis.com/blog/chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-comparison-of-devops-management-tools/