aid: chef
name: Chef
description: Chef (Progress Chef) provides infrastructure automation, compliance, and application delivery tooling. Chef exposes
  REST APIs for the Infra Server (managing nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags), Chef Automate (visibility
  into convergence, compliance, and deployment), Habitat Builder (application packaging and delivery), and InSpec (a language
  and runner for security and compliance testing).
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chef/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
tags:
- Application Delivery
- Automation
- Compliance
- Configuration Management
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Habitat
- Infrastructure as Code
- InSpec
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: chef:chef-infra-server-api
  name: Chef Infra Server API
  description: REST API for managing nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, data bags, clients, and users on the Chef Infra
    Server. Authentication uses Chef signed-header authentication with an RSA client key.
  image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/server/api_chef_server/
  baseURL: https://chef.example.com/organizations/example
  tags:
  - Configuration Management
  - Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/server/api_chef_server/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/server/server_security/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-infra-server-api-openapi.yml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-clients.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-cookbooks.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-data-bags.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-environments.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-nodes.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-roles.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/infra-server-users.yaml
- aid: chef:chef-automate-api
  name: Chef Automate API
  description: REST API for Chef Automate providing visibility into infrastructure convergence, compliance scans, and application
    deployment. Includes compliance profiles, scan jobs, reports, IAM, and configuration management endpoints.
  image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  baseURL: https://automate.example.com/api/v0
  tags:
  - Automation
  - Compliance
  - Observability
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_swagger/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.chef.io/automate/api_tokens/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-automate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/automate-iam.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/automate-nodes.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/automate-profiles.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/automate-reports.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/automate-scans.yaml
- aid: chef:chef-habitat-builder-api
  name: Chef Habitat Builder API
  description: REST API for Chef Habitat Builder, the package management service for Habitat application packages. Manages
    origins, packages, channels, and deployment events.
  image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.habitat.sh/docs/using-builder/
  baseURL: https://bldr.habitat.sh/v1
  tags:
  - Application Packaging
  - Deployment
  - Habitat
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.habitat.sh/docs/using-builder/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.habitat.sh/docs/using-builder/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chef-habitat-builder-api-openapi.yml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/habitat-builder-channels.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/habitat-builder-packages.yaml
- aid: chef:chef-inspec
  name: Chef InSpec
  description: InSpec is an open-source language and runner for security and compliance testing. It is consumed via the InSpec
    CLI and Ruby DSL, and surfaced inside Chef Automate as compliance profiles, scan jobs, and reports.
  image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.chef.io/inspec/
  tags:
  - Compliance
  - Security
  - Testing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.chef.io/inspec/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/inspec/inspec
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chef-software
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chef.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.chef.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.chef.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chef.io/blog
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/chef
- type: Support
  url: https://www.chef.io/support
- type: Training
  url: https://training.chef.io/
- type: Community
  url: https://community.chef.io/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.chef.io/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.chef.io/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chef.io/privacy-policy
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/chef-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/chef-node-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/chef-role-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/chef-compliance-profile-schema.json
- type: Spectral
  url: spectral/chef-spectral.yml
- type: NaftikoCapabilities
  url: naftiko/chef-capabilities.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com