Chef vs Dpl

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)

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Dpl

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

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Chef		Dpl
	Project
2	Mentions	1
7,460	Stars	1,287
0.6%	Growth	0.1%
9.6	Activity	0.0
2 days ago	Latest Commit	25 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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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.

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.

Dpl

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

Is heroku + gitlab integration possible?
1 project | /r/Heroku | 15 May 2022

I use gitlab and deploy to heroku using https://rubygems.org/gems/dpl/versions/1.8.21

What are some alternatives?

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

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

Backup - Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

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

Logs - Mountable Rails Engine for viewing paginated logs from a browser

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.

chef-template - Chef Solo config for management servers with Ruby/Rack based applications

Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

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

gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua

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