# Chef Infra
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**Umbrella Project**: [Chef Infra](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/projects/chef-infra.md)

**Project State**: [Active](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md#active)

**Issues [Response Time Maximum](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md)**: 14 days

**Pull Request [Response Time Maximum](https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices/blob/master/repo-management/repo-states.md)**: 14 days

## Getting Started

Chef Infra is a configuration management tool designed to bring automation to your entire infrastructure.

### Want to try Chef Infra?

For Chef Infra usage, please refer to [Learn Chef](https://learn.chef.io/), our self-paced, entirely free learning platform. Learn Chef also includes module-based training for Chef Infra, as well as Chef Automate, Chef Habitat, and Chef InSpec.

Other useful resources for Chef Infra users:

- Documentation: <https://docs.chef.io/>
- Source: <https://github.com/chef/chef/tree/master>
- Tickets/Issues: <https://github.com/chef/chef/issues>
- Slack: [Chef Community Slack](https://community-slack.chef.io/)
- Mailing list/Forum: <https://discourse.chef.io/>

## Reporting Issues

Issues can be reported by using [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/chef/chef/issues).

Note that this repository is primarily for reporting issues in the chef-client itself.  For reporting issues against other Chef projects, please look up the appropriate repository. If you're unsure where to submit an issue, please ask in the #chef-dev channel in [Chef Community Slack](https://community-slack.chef.io/).

## How We Build & Release Chef

For information on how a contribution goes from PR to released package, see [How Chef Infra Is Built](docs/dev/design_documents/how_chef_is_tested_and_built.md)

To learn more about our monthly feature releases and yearly major releases, see [Chef Infra Release and Support Schedule](./docs/dev/policy/release_and_support_schedule.md).

## Getting Involved

We'd love to have your help developing Chef Infra. See our [Contributing Document](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information on getting started.

## License and Copyright

Copyright 2008-2021, Chef Software, Inc.

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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```