Chef

A powerful automation platform that helps in the transformation of infrastructure into code. Chef is a configuration management tool, which automates the configuration, management and deployment of infrastructure over the network irrespective of its size.It is an integrated framework that provides the benefits of configuration management to the complete infrastructure. Since the infrastructure is defined with code, it can be tested, automated and reproduced easily with high efficiency.The chef server is responsible for the storage of cookbooks and the policies applicable to nodes in the network.