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Chef Infra Client

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Project

Chef Infra Client — A powerful configuration management tool that brings infrastructure automation to scale, ensuring system state consistency across platforms.

Project Scope

  • Chef Infra Client is responsible for enforcing desired system configurations across servers.
  • It handles system resource definitions, dependencies and executions of IaC recorded in cookbooks.
  • Built in Ruby with native extensions; uses Ohai for system profiling.

Sub Projects

  • Ohai
  • Cookbook

Communication

Contributing

Seeking Help

  • Major areas seeking contribution:
  • New resource support
  • Additional train protocol support
  • Bug fixes
  • Documentation improvements
  • Testing and CI enhancements

Governance

This project follows the Chef Open Source Governance Model.

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License

  • Open source code is licensed under Apache 2.0
  • Commercial features may be separately licensed by Progress Chef

Project Members

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Project Owners

Name Region / TZ Github Slack
Rahul Goel US - Mountain rahulgoel1 @Rahul.Goel

Project Advisor

Name Region / TZ Github Slack
Phil Dibowitz US - Pacific jaymzh @jaymzh

Project Approvers

Name Region / TZ Github Slack
Phil Dibowitz US - Pacific jaymzh @jaymzh

Project Reviewers

Name Region / TZ Github Slack

Project Alums

Name Github Slack
Tim Smith tas50 @tas50
Bryan McLellan btm @btm
Robb Kidd robbkidd @robbkidd
Adam Jacob adamhjk @adam
Adam Leff adamleff @adamleff
AJ Christensen fujin @fujin
Amy Aronsohn OnlyHaveCans @onlyhavecans
Daniel DeLeo danielsdeleo @kallistec
Jay Mundrawala jaym @jaym
John Keiser jkeiser @jkeiser
Jon Cowie jonlives @jonlives
Josh Hudson itmustbejj @jhudson
Joshua Timberman jtimberman @jtimberman
Kartik Cating-Subramanian ksubrama @ksubrama
Mark Anderson markan @mark
Mike Dodge mikedodge04 @mikedodge04
Noah Kantrowitz coderanger @coderanger
Ranjib Dey ranjib @cha0s
Ryan Davis zenspider @Ryan Davis
Salim Alam chefsalim @Salim Alam
Seth Thomas cheeseplus @cheeseplus
Steven Murawksi smurawski @stevenmurawski
Steven Danna stevendanna @ssd
Stuart Preston stuartpreston @stuart
Thom May thommay @thom
Tom Duffield tduffield @tduffield
Tyler Ball tyler-ball @tball
Pete Higgins phiggins @pete