Comparison

BOSH vs Chef Habitat

No leader: the top candidate Chef Habitat has only 0.18 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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BOSH62
Chef Habitat64
Score
Vioscale score
BOSH62 / 100high · 78%
Chef Habitat64 / 100low · 18%
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
BOSH6.9
Chef Habitat
Reliability
Status page
BOSH
Chef Habitat
Adoption
Dependent repos
BOSH131
Chef Habitat
Github stars
BOSH2,077
Chef Habitat
Activity
Commits last 30d
BOSH100
Chef Habitat
Release
Cadence days
BOSH6
Chef Habitat
History
Chef Habitat
License
Spdx
Chef Habitat
Language
Primary
BOSHRuby
Chef Habitat
Market

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

A tool chain for automating the release engineering, deployment, and ongoing management of complex distributed services. It supports multiple cloud platforms and can manage itself through self-hosting.

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

Open sourceFree tier
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

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

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.