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Introduction
Chef is a configuration management tool (like Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CFEngine). It is a tool which manages the configuration of centrally managed Linux servers, compute clusters, and desktops. Examples of configuration items Chef manages includes: sudo privileges, login access privileges, logging, software repositories, cronjobs. Chef is the configuration management tool for CentOS 7 and later, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and later, and Ubuntu 16.04 and later. Operating systems earlier than those (RHEL 5 and 6, Solaris) are centrally managed using Taylor (a locally written configuration management tool).
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