Chef VS Capistrano

Compare Chef vs Capistrano and see what are their differences.

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)

Capistrano

A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH. (by capistrano)
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Chef Capistrano
2 10
7,426 12,628
0.4% 0.0%
9.5 6.1
5 days ago 9 days ago
Ruby Ruby
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

Capistrano

Posts with mentions or reviews of Capistrano. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

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

Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

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

Deployinator

Rubber - A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.

Vlad the Deployer

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

deployer-on-github-actions-example - Example Repository showcasing how to run deployer on GitHub Actions

Rocketeer

Ruby-LXC - ruby bindings for liblxc

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

Dpl - Dpl (dee-pee-ell) is a deploy tool made for continuous deployment.