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Install Chef Workstation

Chef Workstation installs everything you need to get started using Chef products on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Install with winget
winget install --id ChefSoftware.Workstation
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id ChefSoftware.Workstation
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id ChefSoftware.Workstation

About Chef Workstation

Start your infrastructure automation with Chef Workstation. Chef Workstation gives you everything you need to get started with Chef - ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks, cookbook creation tools as well as robust dependency and testing software - all in one easy-to-install package. Chef Workstation includes: - Chef Infra Client - Chef InSpec - Chef Habitat - chef and knife command line tools - Testing tools such as Test Kitchen and Cookstyle - Everything else needed to author cookbooks and...

Version history

Version Updated Notes
25.13.7.1 Unknown Release notes
25.12.1102.1 Unknown Component Updates Test Kitchen - Updated Test Kitchen to v3.9.1. Knife - Updated Knife from v18.8.13 to v18.8.68 to address code scanning alerts. chef-cli - Updated chef-cli from v5.6.21 to v5.6.23 to to address code sca...
25.9.1094.1 Unknown Release Date: September 30, 2025. New features - Updated Test Kitchen to 3.9.0. This adds support for using SSH transport on Windows platforms. Component updates - Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.8.11. See the Chef Infr...
25.5.1084.1 Unknown Release Date: May 27, 2025. Components Chef Infra Client - Updated Chef Infra Client to v18.7.10. See the Chef Infra Client release notes for a full list of improvements and features. InSpec - Updated Chef InSpec to v5.2...
25.2.1075.1 Unknown Components Knife Important Notice: Upcoming Omnitruck API Deprecation We updated Knife from v18.6.2 to v18.6.13. This release introduces a warning message when running knife bootstrap that notifies users about the upcomi...
22.7.1006.1 Unknown No notes
22.1.745.1 Unknown No notes
21.11.679.1 Unknown No notes
21.7.524.1 Unknown No notes