What are the disadvantages of using Chef in DevOps?

Despite its benefits, Chef has a few drawbacks in DevOps. It has a steeper learning curve, especially for those unfamiliar with Ruby or configuration management. Chef’s client-server architecture also introduces complexity when it is not required, and thus it may not be the best choice for teams that need a fast, agentless setup. Chef has chosen to stick to configuration management as its core and has not followed the drift towards native infrastructure provisioning, as one finds in tools like Terraform. One disadvantage of Chef’s complex nature is that in simpler scenarios, using a tool with less complexity, such as Ansible, would be much better.