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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

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

Seeking Help

  • Major areas seeking contribution:
  • Documentation and tutorials

Governance

This project follows the Chef Open Source Governance Model.

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The list or project repositories is out of date and is in the process of being updated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

Name Region / TZ Github Slack

Project Approvers

Name Region / TZ Github Slack

Project Reviewers

Name Region / TZ Github Slack

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