Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management system 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.

the chef server is a merb application that provides centralized storage and distribution for recipes stored in "cookbooks," management and authentication of client nodes and node data, and search indexes for that data.

the chef-server package provides a merb binary wrapper that loads up the chef-server-slice application.

this package contains the chef-server merb application and associated files.