Develop and test Chef cookbooks in a cloud workspace.
Start coding free →Chef is an open-source configuration management tool written in Ruby. It uses a domain-specific language to describe infrastructure as code through recipes that define the desired state of servers, automating provisioning, configuration, and application deployment. On RunCode, a Chef workspace is ready in under a minute.
Open a Chef workspace →Chef recipes describe the desired state of infrastructure resources like packages, services, and files. A central Chef Server distributes policy to nodes, which converge until their actual state matches the recipe. This idempotent approach means running a recipe multiple times produces the same result each time. Common use cases include managing server configuration in data centers and cloud environments, deploying applications, and automating CI/CD pipelines.