The majority of discussions related to using the Habitat framework happen here. Thread content frequently consists of support or general use questions.

Chef Infra is an infrastructure configuration engine for modern software-driven organizations to ensure every system is configured correctly, consistently and automatically.

Every week we hold text-based meetings in the #community-meetings room of Chef's community slack. The notes for those meetings are posted here!

This category is used to announce releases of Chef software and other projects related to Chef. Only Chef Staff and project maintainers can post in this category. All discussion related to the announcements should be posted in other categories. Release announcements will include information such as the list of new features, bug fixes, errata, contributor recognition, etc. Release announcements may also contain some brief feature descriptions, but in-depth feature spotlights will be posted on the Chef blog.

Chef Habitat is an automation framework that centers application configuration, management, and behavior around the application itself, not the infrastructure that the app runs on.

Chef InSpec leverages an open-source framework for testing and auditing applications and infrastructure. Chef InSpec compares the actual state of a system with the desired state that is expressed in easy-to-read and easy-to-write code.

This category is a place to talk about anything related to the Habitat community organization. You can use this to ask questions, organize or discuss events, or anything that’s not necessarily just about the use of the Habitat framework.

Use this category to discuss all things related to Chef Automate!

This category is intended for all habitat development discussions whether you’ve got a rust-lang question or need help in contributing to a component, this is the place.

This category is used to announce security alerts for Chef software and other projects related to Chef. Only Chef Staff and project maintainers can post in this category. All discussion related to the announcements should be posted in other categories. In the event of a security related release, a post will be made in both the ‘Chef Release Announcements’ and ‘Chef Security Announcements’ categories.

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.

This category is used by the the Habitat core-team to communicate important announcements to the community.

This category can be used to share development documentation related to contributing to, or operating the Habitat project and tools. All posts in this category should be converted to a “wiki” post.

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Discussion of Chef Desktop. Chef Desktop is a new product to help IT resource managers automate deployment, management, and compliance of laptop, desktop, and kiosk workstation fleets. Announced at ChefConf Online 2020: https://community.chef.io/resources/posts/introducing-chef-desktop