BOSH vs Chef

BOSH

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. (by cloudfoundry)

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Source Code

bosh.io

Chef

Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale (by chef)

#DevOps Tools #Chef #DevOps #Cfgmgt #Infrastructure #Automation #Deployment #HacktoberFest

Source Code

chef.io

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BOSH		Chef
	Project
0	Mentions	2
1,996	Stars	7,164
-0.1%	Growth	0.6%
9.8	Activity	9.8
8 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

BOSH

Posts with mentions or reviews of BOSH. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning BOSH yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Chef

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chef. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

I_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2023

my contribution: public_method_that_only_deep_merge_should_use
https://github.com/chef/chef/blob/68dd5f42273f19bc5975c0dc8e...
that was 9 years ago and it was code smell that things were broken apart incorrectly and at some point i rewrote it so that wasn't necessary -- but sometimes you just gotta move the ball down the field, even if you don't get a first down.
Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2022

I've found the Chef project (https://github.com/chef/chef) to be high quality and easily readable but I've been working with Chef for like 8 years at this point which might be influencing how I view it.
Hashicorp projects also seem very well done too especially given how extensible they are.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BOSH and Chef you can also consider the following projects:

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

Capistrano - Remote multi-server automation tool

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Juju - Universal Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) for Kubernetes operators, and operators for traditional Linux apps, with declarative integration between operators for automated microservice integration.

Mina - Blazing fast application deployment tool.

Ruby-LXC - ruby bindings for liblxc

gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua

Logstash - Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data