Platforms

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Chef software is supported on the operating systems (platforms) listed below. To see which versions of our software we currently support, see the Supported Versions page.

Support

We offer two levels of support for platforms (operating systems), Commercial Support and Community Support.

Commercial Support

Commercial support for platforms is part of paid maintenance contracts with Chef Software Inc. Support contracts allow you to open tickets and receive service level agreement (SLA) assistance from our support desk. Commercially supported platforms are extensively tested as part of Chef’s development and release process. Commercial support generally follows the lifecycle of the underlying operating system vendor.

Commercial support is limited to the platforms listed in the “Commercial Support” tables–platforms not listed in these tables are unsupported.

Community Support

Community support for platforms means that members of the Chef community have contributed to these platforms and Chef does not actively work to maintain this functionality. Chef does not explicitly test community supported platforms as part of the development and release process.

Many of these platforms are forks, clones, or otherwise derivative of platforms that Chef commercially supports. Continued functionality for these platforms is likely, but not guaranteed. Unsupported platforms may have missing or non-operative functionality. As always, we welcome community contributions from anyone looking to expand community support for platforms in Chef products.

Platforms

The sections below list the platforms that Chef Software Inc. supports.

Chef Infra Client

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms and versions for Chef Infra Client:

Community Support

The following platforms are supported only via the community:

Chef Workstation

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms and versions for the Chef Workstation:

Chef InSpec

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms and versions for Chef InSpec:

Chef InSpec Target Mode (inspec --target) may be functional on additional platforms, versions, and architectures but are not validated by Chef Software, Inc.

Chef Infra Server

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms and versions for the Chef Infra Server:

Chef Automate Server

Commercial Support

Commercial support for the Chef Automate 2 Server is available for platforms that use:

• a Linux kernel version of 3.2 or greater
• systemd as the init system
• useradd
• curl or wget

Chef Backend

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms for Chef Backend, which is the high-availability solution for Chef Infra Server:

Chef Manage

Commercial Support

The following table lists the commercially-supported platforms for Chef Manage:

Platform End-of-Life Policy

Chef’s products on particular platforms and versions generally reach end-of-life on the same date as the vendor EOL milestone for that operating systems. Because different vendors use different terminology, the following table clarifies when Chef products are end-of-life according to those vendors' terms:

At Chef’s option, additional support may be provided to customers beyond the vendor end-of-life in the above table. As such, the following table indicates upcoming product end-of-life dates for particular platforms. On the Chef end-of-life date, Chef discontinues building software for that platform and version.