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Glossary
Argument
See
Parameter
Chef
a broad term for Opscode products including Chef Server (Erchef), Chef Client, Chef
Solo, Hosted Chef, and Private (Enterprise) Chef; however, most commonly refers to
Chef Client
Chef Client
the agent or service that runs locally on a machine managed by Chef
Chef Shell
formerly
shef
, the Chef Shell (
chef-shell
) is an interactive REPL for using Chef via
the command line (similar to
irb
in Ruby or
python
in Python)
Chef Server
the centralized store for configuration data in your infrastructure
Chef Solo
an open source version of Chef that does not require Chef Server, but lacks some features
that might be important to power users, such as search and centralized data
Client
See
Chef Client
Convergent
See
Convergence
