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Chef

Configuration management tool

Softwareconfiguration manager free software software configuration managementQ24479

Also known as Chef software · Progress Chef

Developer: Chef
Founded: January 15, 2009
Released: January 15, 2009
Latest version: 15.8.23
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1.“Release 15.8.23”github.com/chef/chef/releases/tag/v15.8.23Retrieved 2020-02-20
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, 14.5.20
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1.“Release 14.5.20”github.com/chef/chef-server/releases/tag/14.5.20Retrieved 2021-06-21
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, 16.0.0
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1.“Release 16.0.0”github.com/chef/chef-server/releases/tag/16.0.0Retrieved 2023-12-19
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Written in: Ruby
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1.github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Data/github-ranking-2025-07-06.csv
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, Erlang
License: Apache Software License 2.0
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1.github.com/chef/chef-server/blob/master/LICENSERetrieved 2016-04-07
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Operating system: GNU
Website: chef.io/chef
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1.api.github.com/repos/chef/chef-serverRetrieved 2018-11-18
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, chef.io/chef
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1.api.github.com/repos/chef/chefRetrieved 2018-10-10
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Overview

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Progress Chef is a configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang. It uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". Chef is used to streamline the task of configuring and maintaining a company's servers, and can integrate with cloud-based platforms such as Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, OpenStack, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace to automatically provision and configure new machines. Chef contains solutions for both small and large scale systems.

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Has use: configuration management
Social media followers: 56,004(February 9, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 16333852
57,072(February 21, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 16333852
56,787(January 3, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 16333852
Copyright status: copyrighted
Different from: Chef criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items

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