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About Chef Habitat

The Chef Habitat Studio is a development kit for creating automated build and deployment plans for applications and testing them in a clean-room environment. Habitat packages the Application Manifest into an immutable artifact called the Habitat Application Artifact (.HART) file. The Habitat Supervisor is an agent that runs on or in a server, virtual machine, or container and manages the application according to instructions defined in the Habitat Plan. The Chef Habitat Builder provides package storage, search, and automated API enabled services.

Products

  • Chef Habitat Studio: A development kit for creating automated build and deployment plans and testing them in a clean-room environment.
  • Chef Habitat Builder: Provides enterprise-class functionality including package storage, search, and automated API enabled services.

Used for

  • Defining how an application is built, installed, and run with PowerShell or Bash
  • Isolating dependencies into atomic plans and building an Application Manifest
  • Exporting packages to tarball, Docker, or container registries
  • Deploying and upgrading an application to any environment on-demand
  • Automating health and compliance checks

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Quick Facts

community.chef.io/tools/chef-habitat
CategoryDevOps & Platform Engineering
DeploymentSaaS, On-premises

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