Automate provides a unified view into infrastructure managed by Chef Infra, InSpec, and Habitat.

Key features include:

• Aggregation and analysis tools for Chef Client and Chef Server data,
• Compliance history and reporting, and
• Compliance scanning of both individual servers and cloud APIs.

For more information see:

• Documentation: https://docs.chef.io/automate/
• Release Notes: https://docs.chef.io/release_notes_automate/

Project State: Active

Issues Response Time Maximum: 5 business days

Pull Request Response Time Maximum: 5 business days

Chef Automate is a collection of microservices. Each service is developed independently.

• Automate UI
• Automate Gateway
• Config Management Service
• Compliance Service
• Event Service
• Ingest Service
• Nodemanager Service
• Notifications Service

• AuthN Service
• AuthZ Service
• Automate-Load-Balancer
• Dex (OpenID Connect)
• Local User Service
• Teams Service
• Session Service

• Backup Gateway
• Data Lifecycle Service
• Deployment Service
• Opensearch Gateway
• Opensearch Sidecar
• License Control Service
• PostgreSQL Gateway
• PostgreSQL Sidecar
• Secrets Service
• Trial License Service

These components allow you to deploy other Chef projects as part of Automate

• Chef Server
  • Bifrost
  • Bookshelf
  • Chef Server Gateway
  • Erchef

Please see Quickstart and Development Basics in the development document.

The following picture illustrates the Automate architecture

At this stage in development, the Go libraries and other APIs found in this repository are not intended for use outside of Chef Automate. If you think part of this repository would help and would like to depend on it, please open a GitHub issue so we can discuss it.