Comparison

BOSH vs Chef Habitat

On the evidence we track, BOSH leads this comparison with a composite score of 62/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★BOSH62
Chef Habitat54
Score
vioscaleAI score
BOSH62 / 100high · 78%
Chef Habitat54 / 100low · 11%
Pricing
Free tier
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓
Model
Chef Habitatopen_source
Price level
BOSHfree
Chef Habitatfree
Transparent
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Integrations
Count
BOSH5
Chef Habitat4
Security
Disclosure policy
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat–
Scorecard
BOSH7.2
Chef Habitat–
Reliability
Status page
BOSH–
Chef Habitat✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
BOSH131
Chef Habitat–
Github stars
BOSH2,080
Chef Habitat–
Activity
Commits last 30d
BOSH77
Chef Habitat–
Release
Cadence days
BOSH6
Chef Habitat–
History
Chef Habitat–
License
Spdx
Chef Habitat–
Language
Primary
BOSHRuby
Chef Habitat–
Market
Content
Faq
Chef Habitat6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for configuration management tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Architecture
BOSHDeclarative-OS
Chef HabitatAgent-based
Push / pull model
BOSHPush
Chef HabitatPush
Config language
BOSHYAML
Chef HabitatPowerShell, Bash
Deployment
Masterless mode
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓
Hosting
BOSHSelf-hosted only
Chef HabitatCloud + self-hosted
Correctness
Idempotent
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Model
Desired-state declarative
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Ecosystem
Content registry
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Platform
Windows support
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Scope
Cloud provisioning
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Governance
Policy / compliance
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓
Commercial
Enterprise edition
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat-
Licensing
Open-source core
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

BOSH

Leader

A complete toolchain for deploying, managing, and monitoring large-scale distributed services across multiple cloud platforms and infrastructure providers.

Independently observed

Chef Habitat

Chef Habitat automates the process of building, packaging, and deploying applications in isolated artifacts that can run anywhere. It provides a development studio for defining deployment instructions, packages applications into immutable artifacts, and includes a lightweight supervisor agent to manage deployments across servers, VMs, and containers.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

BOSH

Leader
Open source

Free and open source

as of verify ↗

Chef Habitat

Open sourceFree tier

Open source and free

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓
Windows
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Linux
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
CLI
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
Self-hosted
BOSH✓
Chef Habitat✓
On-premise
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓
Hybrid
BOSH✗
Chef Habitat✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

BOSH

Leader
7 total
  • UAA
  • CredHub
  • OpenStack
  • vCloud
  • Amazon S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Azure Storage
Independently observed

Chef Habitat

4 total
  • Docker
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Amazon Elastic Container Registry
  • Docker Hub
Independently observed
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