Automate infrastructure configuration
Chef Infra is a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure configuration into code. Whether you’re operating in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment, Chef Infra automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across your network, no matter its size.
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Configuration Automation
Confidence Through Code
Define infrastructure as code, making the process of managing configurations automated and testable.
Consistent Configuration
Reduce duplicated manual configuration efforts, ensuring consistent configurations across the development lifecycle.
Eliminate Drift
Ensure configurations only change if a system diverges from the desired defined state and automatically correct configuration drift, if needed.
Extreme Flexibility
Use simple declarative definitions for common tasks or easily extend to support the most unique environmental requirements.
is Used For
is Used For
Configuration Management
Express your infrastructure configuration as code, and make your systems testable, portable, and auditable. Give your teams the freedom to focus on building new innovations, rather than on solving problems that have already been solved in the past. Automate your systems’ adherence to declared desired state and focus on solving the most important problems that your teams face.
# remove write permissions from path folders ($PATH) for all regular users
# this prevents changing any system-wide command from normal users
paths = %w[/usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /bin] + node['os-hardening']['env']['extra_user_paths']
paths.each do |folder|
execute "remove write permission from #{folder}" do
command "chmod go-w -R #{folder}"
not_if "find #{folder} -perm -go+w -type f | wc -l | egrep '^0$'"
end
System Hardening
Applying OSes and patches, deploying core libraries to these Operating Systems, deploying apps into these images, and finally scanning everything for known vulnerabilities. Keep these patches, libraries and apps automatically updated. Leverage a rich set of APIs as well as the CLI to integrate with other tools.
DevOps and Cloud Automation
Integrate with tools across the DevOps toolchain, including source code and artifact repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian BitBucket), CI/CD tools (Cloudbees/Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps), provisioning (HashiCorp Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, Vault). Work with any cloud resource manager, including Azure Resource Manager and AWS CloudFormation. Multi-cloud automation enabled via integrations with provisioning tools like Terraform.
Incident Management
View a summary or detailed view to look at a node/app status or troubleshoot errors. Filter down to classes of nodes or classes of errors to isolate data. Display notifications on a per-node, per-failure basis, or configured for alerts to chat, to webhook endpoints, or to ServiceNow.
Chef Infra Ecosystem
Chef Workstation
Chef Workstation packages all the tools necessary to be successful with Chef Infra and InSpec.
Test Kitchen
Test Kitchen is an open source integration tool pioneered by Chef for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms.
Chef Supermarket
Chef Supermarket is the site for community cookbooks. It provides an easily searchable cookbook repository and a friendly web UI.
Chef Cookstyle
Chef Cookstyle is a code linting tool that helps you write better Chef Infra cookbooks by detecting and automatically correcting style, syntax, and logic mistakes in your code.
Get started in three simple steps
Self-learning tutorials
Manage Your Fleet with Chef Infra
Learn how to express your infrastructure policies as easily-managed, traceable code.
Validate Infrastructure Code with Test Kitchen
Learn how to use Test Kitchen to test your cookbooks on your local machine before you deploy your cookbooks to your infrastructure.
Transform Your Organization with DevOps
Learn the principles of DevOps and transform your organization into a coded enterprise.
Community resources
Chef Infra for Dummies - How SAP Ramps Up New Developers
By Dan-Joe Lopez
Third Time’s a Charm - Introducing and Evolving a Chef Infra Implementation
By Graham Davison
Easy Multi-Node Configuration with Chef and HashiCorp Consul
By Sean Carolan
Integrating Chef with ServiceNow
By Nick Rycar, Brittany Woods
