Compare Artifactory и Chef Enterprise Automation Stack

Benefits:

Any software company, after a while, has its own internal tools that you can't keep copying to each new project. Also, any Continuous Integration/D... Read more

Any software company, after a while, has its own internal tools that you can't keep copying to each new project. Also, any Continuous Integration/Deployment system needs a repository for the artifacts. Artifactory serves perfectly to these needs. The web UI is simple enough, with a nice search engine, good integration with main CI servers and a REST API. Maven support is available in the OOS version and many other packages are supported in the Pro one (eg. NPM, Docker). If you're behind a corporate proxy you'll love the repository mirroring to limit the hassle with IT. Available on-premise and as cloud service. Upgrade is easy.

Drawbacks:

It mostly works transparently, but be careful if you're behind a too strict proxy: recently our client's IT security decided that many JARs from Ma... Read more

It mostly works transparently, but be careful if you're behind a too strict proxy: recently our client's IT security decided that many JARs from Maven Central were dangerous, redirecting to a "forbidden" page. We soon ended up with the repository full of JARs actually containing that page. It took a while to figure out, so remember to keep the MD5 check enabled. Sometimes it seems that Artifactory starts leaking memory and we need to restart it. The Pro version is not really cheap.

Summary:

Benefits:

We use the WebDAV shares functionality to our source control so when a developer commits/delivers code and binary to the source control (RTC) it mo... Read more

We use the WebDAV shares functionality to our source control so when a developer commits/delivers code and binary to the source control (RTC) it moves the binaries to Artifactory so it keeps the source control safe from binaries. I also like the support for all types of packages including Conan C/C++ packages. It has a connector to almost anything including Jenkins, Docker, K8S, etc.

Drawbacks:

The free/open source version lacks functionality comparing to it competitors such as supporting comiting more than one file and some packages support.

Summary:

It's very intuative and a standard of binary repositories, the basic verion supports all packages and Jenkins and other tools. Highly recommended!

Benefits:

Container registry, vagrant repository, rich API, OOB integration with Jenkins for CI/CD, Role based access control, virtual repositories concept

Drawbacks:

Reporting and Analytics is a weak point. Also vulnerabilities scanning is not available by default and you need to purchase XRAY which is a separat... Read more

Reporting and Analytics is a weak point. Also vulnerabilities scanning is not available by default and you need to purchase XRAY which is a separate product. Ideally they should integrate the both into 1 tool.

Summary:

Overall I am happy with the tool, and use it on daily basis for build Artifact management via CICD pipelines in Jenkins.

Benefits:

I'll admit that I've been very intrigued by the fancy digital mapping used in JFrog's general interface, and especially so in Artifactory. Cool gra... Read more

I'll admit that I've been very intrigued by the fancy digital mapping used in JFrog's general interface, and especially so in Artifactory. Cool graphics let me know exactly what all my information is doing or going, and is intended to provide clarity.

Drawbacks:

The software provides so much clarity that I'm not actually sure if I need it! Seriously, it's a cool product, but the features are so automaticall... Read more

The software provides so much clarity that I'm not actually sure if I need it! Seriously, it's a cool product, but the features are so automatically included in other products that we already use... it seems like an unnecessary add-on.

Summary:

Cool graphics, easy to understand, but ultimately not needed.

Benefits:

Chef is a powerful configuration management tool that manages and helps in automating the infrastructure with the advance software methodology . It... Read more

Chef is a powerful configuration management tool that manages and helps in automating the infrastructure with the advance software methodology . It helps in managing the timeline for release. Chef also provide the template infrastructure to configure the module according to the enterprise and DevOps standard. It really helps in deploying the project with the automation. It is written in Ruby and Erlang which run so efficiently on servers without using the must resources. The DevOps methodology helps in making a streamline for configuration and maintenance.

Drawbacks:

Implementation of Chef and opting the DevOps methodology is one of the complex part of it. Master Node can be only configurable in Linux\Unix platf... Read more

Implementation of Chef and opting the DevOps methodology is one of the complex part of it. Master Node can be only configurable in Linux\Unix platform. Learning curves are sharp but the brief documentation help and never let you stuck in any step.

Summary:

We manage the application and services so efficiently with it. The chef-solo also helps in learning and implementing the things. On production we ... Read more

We manage the application and services so efficiently with it. The chef-solo also helps in learning and implementing the things. On production we use client/server mode to make it more productive. The elastic search indexing help the client node to handle the query in more efficient manner.

Benefits:

The Chef Enterprise Automation stack is better automation tool in DevOps Industry. Easy to Deploy and Maintenance both On-Premises and Cloud Infras... Read more

The Chef Enterprise Automation stack is better automation tool in DevOps Industry. Easy to Deploy and Maintenance both On-Premises and Cloud Infrastructure.

Drawbacks:

The Chef Enterprise Automation stack may improve their deployment methodologies compared with others tool Like Ansible , Salt.

Summary:

Over All Better Devops tool in Automation Industry.

Benefits:

It offered a lot of automation capability, which for the rigth people unlocks deployment of the applications and it's written in Ruby.

Drawbacks:

The documentation was a bit scarce, and the available resources online were not that great at the time I tried this.

Summary:

Happy to use it for automatic deployment when someone else did the hard stuff to configure it.

Benefits:

Chef is the configuration management tool. It helps in automation build, deploys and manages the CI pipeline and also provides the collaboration an... Read more

Chef is the configuration management tool. It helps in automation build, deploys and manages the CI pipeline and also provides the collaboration and makes clean and easy way for release. The Open Source code make it transparent and easy to debug and customize it. Chef is the best tool to pick form the CM DevOps option as it has the most features that need a CI pipeline need it at the time of development and delivery. Chef is highly scalable with high availability as backup master node is also there.

Drawbacks:

Implementation is the most complex part. There should be wizards for the same to make it simple and easy. Master Node can be configured on linux on... Read more

Implementation is the most complex part. There should be wizards for the same to make it simple and easy. Master Node can be configured on linux only, So it makes it compulsory to know LINUX while setup of master node. ChefBook is not as easy as yaml scripting language.

Summary:

Chef is helping us to configure the build and deploy for the different server at the same time. Chef help us to implement the true DevOps environme... Read more

Chef is helping us to configure the build and deploy for the different server at the same time. Chef help us to implement the true DevOps environment for the development and product delivery.