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-slice package contains all the goods for the chef server and is started with the chef-server program.

this package contains the merb slice for the chef-server.