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 Command Line Tool
- Test Kitchen
- Cookstyle
- Various Test Kitchen and Knife plugins for clouds
Getting Started
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Download Chef Workstation
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Double-click the
.dmgor.msifile 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]
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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 -hfor 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..