Chef
Chef (Progress Chef) provides infrastructure automation, compliance, and application delivery tooling. Chef exposes REST APIs for the Infra Server (managing nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags), Chef Automate (visibility into convergence, compliance, and deployment), Habitat Builder (application packaging and delivery), and InSpec (a language and runner for security and compliance testing).
Chef publishes 13 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Channels API, Clients API, Cookbooks API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Application Delivery, Automation, Compliance, Configuration Management, and DevOps.
The Chef catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Chef’s developer surface includes CLI, changelog, authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, GitHub presence, and 34 more developer resources.
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APIs 14
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Chef InSpec
InSpec is an open-source language and runner for security and compliance testing. It is consumed via the InSpec CLI and Ruby DSL, and surfaced inside Chef Automate as compliance...
Chef Channels API
The Channels API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for channels.
Chef Clients API
The Clients API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for clients.
Chef Cookbooks API
The Cookbooks API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for cookbooks.
Chef Data Bags API
The Data Bags API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for data bags.
Chef Environments API
The Environments API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for environments.
Chef IAM API
The IAM API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for iam.
Chef Nodes API
The Nodes API from Chef — 3 operation(s) for nodes.
Chef Packages API
The Packages API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for packages.
Chef Profiles API
The Profiles API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for profiles.
Chef Reports API
The Reports API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for reports.
Chef Roles API
The Roles API from Chef — 2 operation(s) for roles.
Chef Scans API
The Scans API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for scans.
Chef Users API
The Users API from Chef — 1 operation(s) for users.
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Postman Collections 13
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Chef Automate Channels API
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Open Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Chef Automate API
OPEN COLLECTIONChef Habitat Builder API
OPEN COLLECTIONChef Infra Server API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 8
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Chef Review Access Across Infra Server and Automate
Enumerate Infra Server clients and users alongside Automate IAM users for one access review.
ARAZZOChef Automate Run a Compliance Scan and Retrieve Reports
Resolve profiles and nodes, launch a scan job, then search reporting for the results.
ARAZZOChef Habitat Audit an Origin's Package Releases and Channels
List an origin's packages, resolve one package's releases, and map the origin's promotion channels.
ARAZZOChef Snapshot an Infra Server Organization Inventory
Walk nodes, cookbooks, roles, environments, and data bags to build one organization snapshot.
ARAZZOChef Decommission a Node
Capture a node's final state, delete the node object, and confirm it left the inventory.
ARAZZOChef Register a Node on the Infra Server
Check whether a node already exists, create it if it does not, and read it back.
ARAZZOChef Add a Cookbook to a Node Run List
Confirm a cookbook exists, read the node, append the recipe to its run list, and verify.
ARAZZOChef Define a Role and Assign It to a Node
Create a role, read it back, then place it in a node's run list.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
chef-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Chef Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Chef Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Chef Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Chef Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Chef API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 14
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API