Chef

wikipedia:Chef (software) (2009) configuration management tool.

• Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS), comprises four tools: Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat and Chef Automate.

Installation

• apt install chef, provides knife binary
• MacOS: brew install chef/chef/inspec
• gem install chef

Configuration

• /etc/chef/client.rb

Activities

1. Review Journalbeat Chef Cookbook: https://gitlab.com/chef-platform/journalbeat
2. Chef: Editing a file

Related terms

• Gitlab-ctl reconfigure: Starting Chef Client .../...
• Chef Bento project
• knife: knife vault
• chef-apply
• Gemfile
• Cinc Client (CINC Is Not Chef)

See also

• Chef, knife, chef-apply, Chef InSpec, knife vault, Chef Habitat, chef-solo,Chef apply --help, chef generate, Chef: Editing a file
• Configuration management: Chef, CINC, cdist, capistrano, Ansible, puppet, SaltStack
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) (ARM templates), Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Heat, Spacelift, Oracle Cloud Resource Manager, KICS, Troposphere, CaC, IaC scanning, Bicep