Information Technology Reference
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Chef Server is the centralized store for configuration data in your infrastructure. It stores and
indexes cookbooks, environments, templates, metadata, files, and distribution policies. Chef
Server is aware of all machines it manages, and in this way, Chef Server also acts as an in-
ventory management system.
As of Chef 11, Chef Server is written in Erlang, a programming language designed with
con-
currency
in mind. Chef Server is also composed of a web server, cookbook store, web inter-
face, messaging queue, and backend database.
Figure 9-1
shows how each of these pieces in-
teract.
