Habitat Project
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Project Name
Chef Habitat — Application automation framework designed to build, deploy, and manage applications in a consistent and repeatable way across all environments.
Project Scope
- Chef Habitat enables packaging, running, and managing applications as portable, self-contained artifacts.
- It provides an automated build system, runtime environment, and dynamic configuration capability.
- Built in Rust and supports multiple runtime and packaging targets, including Linux, Windows, and containerized environments.
Communication
- Slack Channel: #habitat
- Triage Schedule: n/a
- Release Notes: Docs Discourse
- Discourse topics: Habitat @ Chef Discourse
Sub Projects
- Builder — Habitat's package depot, build automation service, and artifact promotion system.
- Hab CLI — Command-line interface for building and managing Habitat packages.
- Supervisor — Runtime process manager that handles service lifecycle, configuration updates, and peer communication.
Contributing
- See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
- See Contributor Guide for general contributor information
Seeking Help
- Major areas seeking contribution:
- Documentation and tutorials
Governance
This project follows the Chef Open Source Governance Model.
Related Repositories
Warning
The list or project repositories is out of date and is in the process of being updated
List of key active repositories related to this project: * habitat-sh/habitat
License
- Open source code is licensed under Apache 2.0
- Commercial features may be are separately licensed by Progress Chef
Project Members
For information on how to join the project as a project member please review the Project Membership process.
Project Owners
| Name | Region / TZ | Github | Slack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Wrock | US - Pacific | mwrock | |
| Rahul Goel | US - Mountain | rahulgoel1 | @Rahul.Goel |
Project Advisor
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|---|---|---|---|
Project Approvers
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Project Reviewers
| Name | Region / TZ | Github | Slack |
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Project Alums
| Name | Github | Slack |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Miller | jeremymv2 | |
| Mark Anderson | markan | |
| Kimberley Garmoe | kagarmoe | |
| Mary Jinglewski | mjingle | |
| Christopher Maier | christophermaier | |
| Ian Henry | eeyun | |
| Salim Alam | chefsalim | |
| Josh Black | raskchanky | |
| Liz Chen | apriofrost | |
| Scott Macfarlane | smacfarlane |