vioscale
Comparison

Chef Habitat vs Puppet

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.

Chef Habitat full profile →Puppet full profile →
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Chef Habitat64
Puppet47
Score
Vioscale score
Chef Habitat64 / 100low · 18%
Puppet47 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tier
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Model
Chef Habitatopen_source
Puppetcommercial
Price level
Chef Habitatfree
Puppetlow
Transparent
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✗
Integrations
Count
Chef Habitat4
Puppet13
Security
Scorecard
Chef Habitat–
Puppet3.5
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Chef Habitat–
Puppet12,289
Github stars
Chef Habitat–
Puppet7,922
Activity
Commits last 30d
Chef Habitat–
Puppet0
Release
History
Chef Habitat–
Puppet12 items
License
Spdx
Chef Habitat–
PuppetApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Chef Habitat–
PuppetRuby
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Puppet

Infrastructure automation tool that maintains consistent configurations across on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and edge environments through continuous enforcement of desired state. Automatically detects and corrects configuration drift, enforces compliance policies, and generates audit-ready documentation.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Chef Habitat

Open sourceFree tier

Open source and free

as of verify ↗

Puppet

HybridFree tier

Free tier for <25 nodes; custom pricing for larger deployments

  • CoreFree
    • Stable, secure, vendor-supported builds
    • Hardened binaries and packages
    • Vendor-backed SLAs
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Web-based console interface
    • Role-based access control
    • Infrastructure management across cloud and on-premises
    • CI/CD pipeline tooling
    • ServiceNow integration
  • AdvancedContact sales
    • AI-powered infrastructure insights
    • Event-driven workflows
    • Automated vulnerability remediation
    • Priority support
    • Security baseline enforcement
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
macOS
Chef Habitat✗
Puppet✓
Windows
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Linux
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
CLI
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Self-hosted
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
On-premise
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Hybrid
Chef Habitat✓
Puppet✓
Air-gapped
Chef Habitat✗
Puppet✓

Integrations

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

Chef Habitat

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

Puppet

13 total
  • ServiceNow
  • VMware
  • Argo CD
  • Jenkins
  • Dynatrace
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • Splunk
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Tenable Nessus
  • CIS Benchmarks
  • DISA STIG
Independently observed

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