# Chef Software

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chef-software/  
**Website:** https://docs.chef.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 30

Chef Software is the DevOps automation company behind Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate, now part of Progress Software. Chef pioneered infrastructure-as-code, letting teams define, deploy, and continuously enforce the configuration, compliance, and security posture of servers and applications across data centers and cloud at any scale. Chef Automate exposes a REST API (generated from gRPC service definitions via grpc-gateway) for managing compliance reporting, node management, configuration management, secrets, data feeds, event feeds, IAM (users, teams, tokens, policies, rules), and the application service catalog. Authentication is via API tokens presented in the api-token HTTP header. Chef also ships a deep open-source ecosystem of Ruby client tooling (chef-client, InSpec, Ohai, Berkshelf, chef-cli, knife) distributed on RubyGems, all developed in the open on the chef GitHub org.

## Kin Score — 56.6 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.4 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 36.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (30)

- **Chef Software ApplicationsService API** — The ApplicationsService API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for applicationsservice.
- **Chef Software Authorization API** — The Authorization API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for authorization.
- **Chef Software Cds API** — The Cds API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for cds.
- **Chef Software ChefIngester API** — The ChefIngester API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for chefingester.
- **Chef Software Comp_Assets API** — The Comp_Assets API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for comp_assets.
- **Chef Software ConfigMgmt API** — The ConfigMgmt API from Chef Software — 23 operation(s) for configmgmt.
- **Chef Software DatafeedService API** — The DatafeedService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for datafeedservice.
- **Chef Software DataLifecycle API** — The DataLifecycle API from Chef Software — 15 operation(s) for datalifecycle.
- **Chef Software EventFeedService API** — The EventFeedService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for eventfeedservice.
- **Chef Software hidden API** — The hidden API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for hidden.
- **Chef Software InfraProxy API** — The InfraProxy API from Chef Software — 36 operation(s) for infraproxy.
- **Chef Software JobScheduler API** — The JobScheduler API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for jobscheduler.
- **Chef Software JobsService API** — The JobsService API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for jobsservice.
- **Chef Software NodeManagerService API** — The NodeManagerService API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for nodemanagerservice.
- **Chef Software NodesService API** — The NodesService API from Chef Software — 7 operation(s) for nodesservice.
- **Chef Software policies API** — The policies API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for policies.
- **Chef Software ProfilesService API** — The ProfilesService API from Chef Software — 5 operation(s) for profilesservice.
- **Chef Software projects API** — The projects API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for projects.
- **Chef Software ReportingService API** — The ReportingService API from Chef Software — 12 operation(s) for reportingservice.
- **Chef Software ReportManagerService API** — The ReportManagerService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for reportmanagerservice.
- **Chef Software retention API** — The retention API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for retention.
- **Chef Software roles API** — The roles API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for roles.
- **Chef Software rules API** — The rules API from Chef Software — 4 operation(s) for rules.
- **Chef Software SecretsService API** — The SecretsService API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for secretsservice.
- **Chef Software service_groups API** — The service_groups API from Chef Software — 9 operation(s) for service_groups.
- **Chef Software StatsService API** — The StatsService API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for statsservice.
- **Chef Software teams API** — The teams API from Chef Software — 6 operation(s) for teams.
- **Chef Software tokens API** — The tokens API from Chef Software — 2 operation(s) for tokens.
- **Chef Software users API** — The users API from Chef Software — 3 operation(s) for users.
- **Chef Software UserSettingsService API** — The UserSettingsService API from Chef Software — 1 operation(s) for usersettingsservice.

## MCP servers (1)

- **chef-software-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Chef Software Agentic Access** — 256 operations · 144 acting · 7 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Chef Software Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Chef Software Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Chef Software Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published
- **Chef Software Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA

## Tags

Company, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration Management, Compliance, Security, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud, Continuous Compliance, Node Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chef-software/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.