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Renaming Chef Workstation gem to Chef CLI because that is more true
tyler-ball authored 
This also sets us up to start making 'Chef Workstation' refer more to
the total package, and 'Chef CLI' is just one component in that package.
It also has the 'chef' executable in it which makes sense.
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Chef Workstation

Chef Workstation installs everything you need to get started using Chef on Windows, Mac and Linux; and is currently focused around performing ad-hoc tasks on your server.

Getting Started

  1. Download Chef Workstation

    Note: These links are internal and require Chef VPN.

  2. Double-click the .dmg or .msi file to start the install process. Or install the Linux package for your platform.

  3. Open a command-line terminal, and try out some chef-cli commands

    • Run chef -h to view the available commands

    • Want to perform an ad-hoc task? Try

    chef target converge <Target host|IP|SSH|WinRM> <Resource> <Resource Name> [properties] [flags]

    chef target converge user@hostname user timmy

    chef target converge winrm://user@hostname:port user timmy

Building Chef-Workstation Packages

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

Questions or concerns?

Please join us in the #chef-workstation channel on Slack!

Copyright and License

Copyright 2008-2018, Chef Software, Inc.

Note: We are currently not open source. The plan is to make Chef Workstation open source at some point in the future.