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Automate infrastructure configuration at scale with Chef Infra
Chef Infra turns infrastructure into code, enabling consistent, automated configuration, deployment, and management across any environment, from small clusters to massive data centers.
Chef Infra turns infrastructure into code, letting you define the desired state of servers, containers, and cloud resources in a declarative Ruby‑based DSL. The client continuously converges each node to match the recipes, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production.
Designed for operations, DevOps, and platform engineering teams that manage heterogeneous environments—from on‑premises data centers to public clouds. Chef Infra can run standalone against a Chef Server for centralized policy distribution, or in a solo mode for smaller setups. Installation is performed via the chef-client package on supported platforms, and configuration is version‑controlled alongside application code. Comprehensive documentation, a free Learn Chef learning platform, community Slack, mailing lists, and an active issue‑response cadence (≤14 days) help teams adopt and scale the tool quickly.
When teams consider Chef Infra, these hosted platforms usually appear on the same shortlist.
Looking for a hosted option? These are the services engineering teams benchmark against before choosing open source.
Standardizing web‑server configurations
Ensures identical packages, services, and security settings across 200+ nodes
Automating database cluster provisioning
Creates repeatable, version‑controlled setups with built‑in failover scripts
Enforcing security baselines
Integrates with Chef InSpec to continuously validate compliance across the fleet
Scaling microservice deployments
Orchestrates configuration changes during rolling updates without downtime
A Chef Server provides centralized policy distribution, but Chef Infra can also run in solo mode for smaller, standalone environments.
Cookbooks and recipes are written in Ruby, using Chef's domain‑specific language.
Chef Infra focuses on configuration management of infrastructure, while Chef Habitat is designed for building, packaging, and running applications.
Yes, the Learn Chef platform offers self‑paced, free training modules for Chef Infra and related tools.
Chef Infra is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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