# Progress Chef

> Progress Chef is the infrastructure automation business within Progress Software. Its tools configure machines, test security policies, package applications and orchestrate operational jobs across cloud and on-premises environments. It serves enterprise operations, platform engineering and security teams through commercial subscriptions, hosted services, support and training.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Adam Jacob (Co-founder; creator of Chef; former CTO), Jesse Robbins (Co-founder; founding CEO), Barry Steinglass (Co-founder), Nathan Haneysmith (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Chef Infra, Chef InSpec, Chef Habitat, Chef Automate, Chef 360 Platform
- **Notable:** Progress acquired Chef in October 2020 for USD 220 million in cash., Progress’s 2020 materials reported more than 700 active customers and more than 40 million downloads., Chef 360’s initial platform release was July 2, 2024.

## Products & services

- **Chef Infra** — Desired-state configuration management using cookbooks and recipes; Infra Client 19 is the current LTS line.
- **Chef InSpec** — An infrastructure testing framework for expressing security and compliance requirements as executable controls.
- **Chef Habitat** — Packages applications, dependencies and lifecycle behavior into repeatable artifacts; Habitat 2.x is the current supported major line.
- **Chef Automate** — Visibility and reporting for configuration and compliance workflows; scheduled for deprecation on November 1, 2026 and end of life on November 30, 2027.
- **Chef 360 Platform** — Control plane for node management, job orchestration, declarative state management and compliance; hosted and customer-deployed options.
- **Chef Courier** — Job execution and orchestration on Chef 360, with scheduling, targeting and supported interpreters.
- **Chef Opsmith** — AI-assisted script generation, sandbox validation and job execution; introduced in alpha in February 2026, with some broader content-generation features still marked coming soon.
- **Chef Premium Content** — Prebuilt compliance audit and remediation content aligned with benchmarks such as CIS and DISA STIG.
- **Professional services and training** — Implementation help, technical education and commercial support for automation deployments.

## Achievements

- Progress acquired Chef in October 2020 for USD 220 million in cash.
- Progress’s 2020 materials reported more than 700 active customers and more than 40 million downloads.
- Chef 360’s initial platform release was July 2, 2024.
- SAP’s historical case study describes approximately 10,000 managed nodes, about 70% Windows.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Chef’s licensed-download migration notice announced validation exercises for legacy unauthenticated paths beginning September 17; schedules are explicitly subject to change.
- **2026-08** — Chef 360 Platform 1.7.3, released August 4, added InSpec profile support through the Automate Connector and backup upload support for large migrations.
- **2026-06** — Habitat 2.1.23, released June 11, added package and filesystem functionality on Apple Silicon macOS; Supervisor services remain unsupported on macOS.
- **2026-03** — Chef published its Habitat 2.0 application-delivery update on March 25.
- **2026-02** — Chef announced Infra Client 19 on February 6 and opened Opsmith alpha access on February 10.

## Links

- Website: https://www.chef.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/progress-chef/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/getchefdotcom
- GitHub: https://github.com/chef
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvwl5-yXsQR5zluYPl8NEeQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/progresschef

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Last updated: 2026-10-02