Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management library written in ruby. chef provides a ruby library and api that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure.

chef can be run as a client (chef-client) to a server, or run as a standalone tool (chef-solo). configuration recipes are written in a pure ruby dsl.

this package contains chef-expander, which acts as a bridge between the chef api server and the chef solr service.