generated: '2026-07-18'
method: searched
source: https://rubygems.org / https://github.com/chef
note: >-
  Chef's client-side ecosystem is Ruby, distributed on RubyGems and developed in
  the open on the chef GitHub org. Versions and download counts captured from the
  RubyGems API on 2026-07-18. Chef Habitat's `hab` binary and the Chef Automate
  server are distributed as native builds / Omnitruck installers rather than
  language packages, so they are catalogued in cli/ rather than here.
packages:
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: chef
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/chef
  install: gem install chef
  version: 19.3.15
  downloads: 26625012
  source: https://github.com/chef/chef
  official: true
  description: Chef Infra Client - the core infrastructure automation agent.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: inspec
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/inspec
  install: gem install inspec
  version: 7.1.7
  downloads: 27367240
  source: https://github.com/inspec/inspec
  official: true
  description: Chef InSpec - compliance-as-code auditing and testing framework.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: ohai
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/ohai
  install: gem install ohai
  version: 19.1.40
  downloads: 74708015
  source: https://github.com/chef/ohai
  official: true
  description: Ohai - system profiling / node attribute detection used by Chef Infra.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: chef-cli
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/chef-cli
  install: gem install chef-cli
  version: 6.1.34
  downloads: 1740706
  source: https://github.com/chef/chef-cli
  official: true
  description: Chef Workstation CLI for authoring and testing cookbooks and policies.
- language: ruby
  registry: rubygems
  name: berkshelf
  url: https://rubygems.org/gems/berkshelf
  install: gem install berkshelf
  version: 8.1.23
  downloads: 8506485
  source: https://github.com/chef/berkshelf
  official: true
  description: Berkshelf - cookbook dependency manager for Chef Infra.