Comparison

Chef Habitat vs Puppet Bolt

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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Chef Habitat64
Puppet Bolt54
Score
Vioscale score
Chef Habitat64 / 100low · 18%
Puppet Bolt54 / 100low · 13%
Pricing
Free tier
Chef Habitat
Puppet Bolt
Model
Chef Habitatopen_source
Puppet Boltcommercial
Price level
Chef Habitatfree
Puppet Bolt
Transparent
Chef Habitat
Puppet Bolt
Integrations
Count
Chef Habitat4
Puppet Bolt11
Reliability
Status page
Chef Habitat
Puppet Bolt
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

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 Bolt

Not documented yet.

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 Bolt

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

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

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 Bolt

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

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