Comparison

Chef Habitat vs SaltStack

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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Chef Habitat64
SaltStack55
Score
Vioscale score
Chef Habitat64 / 100low · 18%updating
SaltStack55 / 100medium · 69%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Model
Chef Habitatopen_source
SaltStack
Price level
Chef Habitatfree
SaltStack
Transparent
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Integrations
Count
Chef Habitat4
SaltStack
Reliability
Status page
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Adoption
Dependent repos
Chef Habitat
SaltStack428
Github stars
Chef Habitat
SaltStack15,637
Package downloads weekly
Chef Habitat
SaltStack23,112
Activity
Commits last 30d
Chef Habitat
SaltStack47
Release
Cadence days
Chef Habitat
SaltStack5
History
Chef Habitat
SaltStack20 items
License
Spdx
Chef Habitat
SaltStackApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Chef Habitat
SaltStackPython
Market
Availability
SaltStack

Capabilities

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

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

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

SaltStack

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 ↗

SaltStack

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
SaltStack
Windows
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Linux
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
CLI
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Self-hosted
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
On-premise
Chef Habitat
SaltStack
Hybrid
Chef Habitat
SaltStack

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

SaltStack

Not documented yet.

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