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
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Download Chef Workstation
Note: These links are internal and require Chef VPN.
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Double-click the
.dmg
or.msi
file to start the install process. Or install the Linux package for your platform. -
Open a command-line terminal, and try out some chef-cli commands
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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
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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.