What is the difference between Chef and CloudFormation?

The question is about Chef

Answer:

Chef and CloudFormation both support infrastructure automation but differ in approach and scope. Chef is a configuration management tool that helps developers maintain consistent server configurations across multiple environments. On the other hand, CloudFormation is an AWS-specific service that provisions AWS resources using templates. Though Chef can give multi-cloud and on-premise multi-platform coverage, CloudFormation is optimized for building and managing AWS infrastructure. AWS-developing teams might provision resources with CloudFormation and configure them consistently with Chef.

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