Chef plug-in

Chef is a tool for automating deployment tasks. The Chef plug-in includes a step that installs Chef and a step that uses Chef to install a Chef node on a system.

In the context of Chef automation, a node represents a computer system. A Chef node file includes a list of Chef recipes and roles. These recipes and roles point to automated tasks to run on the node.

To use this plug-in, first run the Install Chef step. Then, run the Install Chef Node step to configure the target system according to a Chef node file. You can run this step multiple times on the same target system to apply multiple Chef node files.

Note: To run the Install Chef step on the Windows operating system, the user account that is associated with the agent must have User Agent Control turned off. If this setting is turned on, Windows prevents the automated step from installing Chef, and thus the process fails.
To install this plug-in, see Installing plug-ins.

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