1)What is Chef?

Chef  is an automation tool. It is a Configuration Management (CM) tool that lets you automate processes and tasks across numerous servers and other devices of an organization in simple steps. Such a framework is highly beneficial to a company.

2)Advantage of Chef?

* Accelerating Software Delivery

* Increasing Service Resiliency

*Improving Risk Management

*Accelerating Cloud Adoption

* Managing Both Data Center and Cloud Environments

* Delivering All Your Infrastructure – Any App, Everywhere, Continuously

3)How to install Chef Workstation?

Start your infrastructure automation quickly and easily with chef workstation  . Chef Workstation gives you everything you need to get started with Chef – ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software – all in one easy-to-install package.

Chef Workstation includes:

• Chef Infra Client
• Chef InSpec
• chef and knife command line tools
• Testing tools such as Test Kitchen, ChefSpec, and Cookstyle
• Everything else needed to author cookbooks and upload them to the Chef Infra Server