Chef alternatives and similar tools
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Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
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Chef Infra
Umbrella Project: Chef Infra
Project State: Active
Issues Response Time Maximum: 14 days
Pull Request Response Time Maximum: 14 days
Getting Started
Chef Infra is a configuration management tool designed to bring automation to your entire infrastructure.
Want to try Chef Infra?
For Chef Infra usage, please refer to Learn Chef, our self-paced, entirely free learning platform. Learn Chef also includes module-based training for Chef Infra, as well as Chef Automate, Chef Habitat, and Chef InSpec.
Other useful resources for Chef Infra users:
- Documentation: https://docs.chef.io/
- Source: https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/main
- Tickets/Issues: https://github.com/chef/chef/issues
- Slack: Chef Community Slack
- Mailing list/Forum: https://discourse.chef.io
Reporting Issues
Issues can be reported by using GitHub Issues.
Note that this repository is primarily for reporting issues in the chef-client itself. For reporting issues against other Chef projects, please look up the appropriate repository. If you're unsure where to submit an issue, please ask in the #chef-dev channel in Chef Community Slack.
How We Build & Release Chef
For information on how a contribution goes from PR to released package, see [How Chef Infra Is Built](docs/dev/design_documents/how_chef_is_tested_and_built.md)
To learn more about our monthly feature releases and yearly major releases, see [Chef Infra Release and Support Schedule](./docs/dev/policy/release_and_support_schedule.md).
Getting Involved
We'd love to have your help developing Chef Infra. See our [Contributing Document](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information on getting started.
License and Copyright
Copyright 2008-2020, Chef Software, Inc.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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