Pychef provides a library with a client and a high-level abstraction API to interact with a Chef server.

Chef is a systems and cloud infrastructure automation framework that makes it easy to deploy servers and applications to any physical, virtual, or cloud location, no matter the size of the infrastructure.

pychef provides all expected features needed to interact with Chef server API:

- Nodes
- Roles
- Data bags
- Environments
- Search
pychef additionally provides integration with Fabric (remote deployment tool) as an extra feature.