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Chef Workstation gives you everything you need to get started with Chef, so you can automate how you audit, configure, and manage applications end environments.

Chef Workstation

Umbrella Project: Chef Workstation

Project State: Active
Issues Response Time Maximum: 14 days
Pull Request Response Time Maximum: 14 days

Chef Workstation installs everything you need to get started using Chef products on Windows, Mac and Linux. It includes:

Chef Workstation App
Chef Infra Client
Chef InSpec
Chef Habitat
Chef Command Line Tool
Test Kitchen
Cookstyle
Various Test Kitchen and Knife plugins for clouds

Getting Started

Download Chef Workstation
Double-click the .dmg or .msi file to start the install process, or use the package manager for your Linux distribution.
Open a terminal, and try out an ad-hoc task. Here's the general usage:

chef-run [flags] <Target host|IP|SSH|WinRM> <Resource> <Resource Name> [properties]

Install the 'ntp' package on 'hostname' over ssh, using password from the environment:

chef-run username:$PASSWORD@hostname package ntp
Create user 'timmy' on 'hostname' over winrm:

chef-run winrm://username@hostname user timmy
Run the recipe 'nginx::passenger' on 'hostname' over ssh on port 2222 using a keyfile:

chef-run ssh://hostname:2222 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa nginx::passenger

Use chef-run -h for additional information about usage and available flags.

Building Chef-Workstation Packages

We use Omnibus to describe our packaging. Please review chef-workstation/omnibus/README.MD for further details.

Copyright and License

Code released under the Apache license. Images and any trademarked content are Copyright 2018 by Chef Software, Inc..

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knife-vsphere

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knife-windows

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omnibus-software

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chef-web-docs

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mixlib-cli

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artifactory-client

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knife-google

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mixer

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concrete

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mixlib-config

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sqerl

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vscode-chef

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cheffish

Resources and tools for testing and interacting with Chef and Chef Server.

knife-tidy

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homebrew-chef

A homebrew tap for ChefDK, Workstation, and InSpec

mixlib-log

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effortless

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chef-load

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knife-ec-backup

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mini_s3

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okta_aws

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dep-selector

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omnitruck

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win32-process

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kitchen-vcenter

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omnibus-ctl

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mixlib-authentication

AuthN signing and verification. Appears in both the client and server

knife-cloud

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win32-taskscheduler

A Ruby interface for the task scheduler on MS Windows

mixlib-versioning

General purpose Ruby library that allows you to parse, compare, and manipulate version strings in multiple formats.

win32-eventlog

The win32-eventlog library provides a Ruby interface for reading from and writing to the Windows Event Log

chefstyle

Version Pinned RuboCop with Chef approved Cop list for linting software - NOT FOR COOKBOOKS

chef-cli

The 'chef' command line tool included in Chef Workstation

win32-file

Extra methods, and redefined methods, for the File class on MS Windows

anka-buildkite-plugin

Run Buildkite steps inside Veertu Anka Virtual Machines

appbundler

Generate locked binstubs for ruby applications

stats_hero

General purpose stats collection

wmi-lite

Lightweight, low-dependency wrapper for basic WMI functionality on Windows.

knife-vrealize

Plugin for Chef's knife tool to interact with VMware vRealize products

chef-apply

The ad-hoc execution tool for the Chef ecosystem.

ffi-libarchive

A Ruby FFI binding to libarchive.

mixlib-install

A library for interacting with Chef Software Inc's software distribution systems.

chef_authn

Erlang API request authentication signing and verification for Chef

ffi-yajl

Ruby FFI gem wrapper around yajl2 library

corefoundation

FFI based Ruby bindings for the CoreFoundation frameworks

fixie

Low level manipulation tool for chef in sql

dep-selector-libgecode

Bundled Gecode Libraries for dep-selector

win32-certstore

Ruby library for accessing the certificate store on Windows

chef-workstation-app

The Chef Workstation desktop application.

win32-security

A Ruby interface for security aspects of MS Windows

knife-vcenter

Chef knife plug-in for VMware REST API

architecture-center

win32-dir

A series of constants, and extra or redefined methods, for the Dir class on Windows

chef_backup

A library to backup an Chef server

chef-vault-testfixtures

provides an RSpec shared context for testing Chef cookbooks that use chef-vault

opscoderl_httpc

Opscode helper application for being an HTTP client

license-acceptance

Chef Software libraries for accepting usage license

rubydistros

Dockerfiles for Ruby on various Linux distros

win32-mmap

A Ruby interface for memory mapped files on MS Windows

chef-analyze

A CLI to analyze artifacts from a Chef Infra Server

win32-event

A Ruby interface to Event objects on MS Windows

license_scout

Discovers license information of the dependencies of a project.

.github

.github files that are inherited by all org repos unless specifically included in a repo

cookbook-omnifetch

Fetch Chef Cookbooks from Various Sources to a Local Cache

win32-ipc

A Ruby abstract base class for synchronization objects on MS Windows

github-workflows

Github Actions Workflows

appbundle-updater

A little help when you want to update an appbundled project inside of a Chef/ChefDK omnibus package

ci-studio-common

Shared helpers for use inside CIs (like Travis) and a Habitat Studio

omnibus-toolchain

Omnibus packaging for Omnibus toolchain

chef-web-core

Shared resources for Chef web properties

gatherlogs-reporter

Inspec profiles for examining gatherlog output from chef-products for support.

chocolatey-packages

compliance-workshop-environment

inspec-extra-resources

folsom_graphite

Send data from folsom automatically to graphite

chef-powershell-shim

.NET 4.0/COM wrapper around PowerShell host

cookstylist

Cookstyle GitHub app

automate-liveness-agent

Agent that sends "keep alive" messages to Chef Automate

community_cookbook_releaser

A simple script to aid in version bumps and changelog generation for Chef managed community cookbooks

habitat_exporter

mixlib-archive

A very simple gem to create and extract archives.

win32-mutex

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chef_dictionary

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