https://falcao.org/tags/chef/Recent content in Chef on Danilo Falcão da SilvaHugoen-usFri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/ansible-puppet-chef-saltstack-2026/Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://falcao.org/posts/ansible-puppet-chef-saltstack-2026/<p>There are four names that come up when you ask how to manage configuration at scale. I&rsquo;ve used all four, in production, over the last fifteen years. The answer to &ldquo;which one&rdquo; is not the one that wins benchmarks — it&rsquo;s the one that matches how your team thinks about change.</p> <p>The shortlist hasn&rsquo;t changed since the early 2010s: <strong>Ansible</strong>, <strong>Puppet</strong>, <strong>Chef</strong>, <strong>SaltStack</strong>. The ownership has changed. The licences have changed. The community gravity has very much changed. Ansible sits at <strong>31.94%</strong> market share for new projects as of early 2026 and is, by a wide margin, the most-adopted tool for new configuration-management work. Puppet holds <strong>12.41%</strong>, Chef around <strong>6.70%</strong>, and Salt has fallen out of the top-tier mindshare entirely even though the codebase is still actively developed under Broadcom.</p>