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Chef Workstation gives you everything you need to get started with Chef, so you can automate how you audit, configure, and manage applications end environments.

Stars: 156
Forks: 116
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 125

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 25, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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125 open issues indexed

Packaged Ruby is EOL Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

chef/chef-workstation#3624 · Opened Jul 14, 2026
Add support for Debian 12 Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#3286 · Opened Dec 10, 2024
Package and OS version mismatch in the Dockerfile Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

chef/chef-workstation#3284 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 4, 2024
Kitchen AWS EC2 Driver Version Bump to 3.7 Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#3131 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 28, 2023
eval $(chef shell init zsh) produces unsightly warnings Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/chef-workstation#3103 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2023
[macOS] Original build machine build dependencies leaking into embedded ruby prevent chef_gem from completing Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#3101 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2023
Workstation 23.2.1028 - /bin/kitchen: warning: Exception in finalizer Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#3073 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 3, 2023
Chef Workstation v23.2.1028 unable to accept license Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#3061 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2023
Chef WS 22.12.1024 missing tar when SHARE to private supermarket Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-workstation#3051 · Opened Feb 8, 2023
Resources not working when using chef-run on windows? 22.12.1024 Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#3038 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 21, 2023
Unable to install latest knife gem using Ruby bundled with chef workstation Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/chef-workstation#2989 · Opened Dec 6, 2022
chef-workstation v22.10.1013 contians deprecation warnings for ::CompositeIO and ::Parts Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-workstation#2987 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 30, 2022
Please add Ubuntu 22.04 support Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2936 · Opened Oct 5, 2022
Windows Path needs Updated - `chef undelete --last` on Windows returns with "No undo records exist" but they do. Open

Platform: Windows Priority: Low Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2901 · Opened Aug 1, 2022
Kitchen escaping spaces in path names and then using them as literal (Windows) Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2899 · Opened Jul 20, 2022
Change provisioner to chef-infra from chef-zero when using `chef generate cookbook` Open

Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 50/100

chef/chef-workstation#2791 · 1 reaction · Opened May 20, 2022
chef-workstation support for aarch64 linux Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2789 · 3 comments · Opened May 19, 2022
openSUSE support Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2772 · 1 comment · Opened May 16, 2022
github usage when using in policyfile gives error: The unauthenticated git protocol on port 9418 is no longer supported. Open

Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2762 · Opened May 9, 2022
git defaults to master - please include main in the default Open

Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2761 · Opened May 9, 2022
Policyfile 'cookbook' setting using the 'github' attribute uses HTTP URL Open

Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-workstation#2799 · Opened Apr 28, 2022
Berkshelf downloader doesn't work to download file from URI in ruby 3.0 Open

Status: Good First Issue Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2735 · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2022
Chef Workstation with embedded ruby doesn't work on MacOS (Code has to be at least ad-hoc signed.) Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2701 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 8, 2022
Error: uninitialized constant Inspec::Error during Kitchen Test Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2643 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2022
Cannot run a recipe on my server via SSH with chef-run - authentication fails Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2634 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2022
homebrew-chef update script only handles intel packages Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-workstation#2599 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2022
chef generate cookbook command creates a kitchen.yml with centos-8 Open

Platform: Linux Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2597 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Create package for SUSE Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

chef/chef-workstation#2575 · Opened Feb 8, 2022
`docs-chef-io/content/workstation/knife_bootstrap.md` examples use deprecated `-x` parameter Open

Documentation Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

chef/chef-workstation#2565 · Opened Feb 2, 2022
Add an expeditor subscription to vmware-vra Open

Aspect: Packaging Triage: Confirmed Type: Chore

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

chef/chef-workstation#2547 · Opened Jan 25, 2022
Remove all references to Delivery from the docs site Open

Aspect: Documentation Triage: Confirmed

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/chef-workstation#2540 · Opened Jan 21, 2022
Test Kitchen: Ensure all projects are tested on modern Ruby releases Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2521 · Opened Jan 19, 2022
Test Kitchen: Ensure all projects have GitHub actions based testing Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2520 · Opened Jan 19, 2022
Inspec: uninitialized constant ActiveSupport Open

Triage: Not Reproducible

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2508 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2022
Unable to create admin with knife Open

Triage: Confirmed Type: Bug Type: Regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2505 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2022
Test coverage reporting and improvement Open

Epic

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2498 · Opened Jan 13, 2022
Chocolatey package promotion failed Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-workstation#2492 · Opened Jan 10, 2022
Homebrew cask didn't update with promotion Open

Type: Regression

chef/chef-workstation#2491 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 10, 2022
After upgrading chef-workstation in homebrew the app never launches Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/chef-workstation#2490 · Opened Jan 10, 2022
Update kitchen-vra to support vRA 8.x Open

Epic Platform: VMware Triage: Support Type: Tech Debt

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

chef/chef-workstation#2485 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2022
Apply & extend Umbrella framework to automate one scenario Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

chef/chef-workstation#2440 · Opened Dec 14, 2021
Identifying a small set of use-cases / scenarios where e2e test automation has maximum benefit Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

chef/chef-workstation#2439 · Opened Dec 14, 2021
Extend Umbrella framework for end-to-end testing Open

Aspect: Stability Aspect: Testing Epic Status: Untriaged Type: Tech Debt

chef/chef-workstation#2438 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 14, 2021
POC/Spike: Multi step wizard in GUI Open

chef/chef-workstation#2414 · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 30, 2021
chef push fails with new go changes Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/chef-workstation#2389 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2021
Deprecate / remove the legacy knife cloud plugins Open

Epic Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/chef-workstation#2379 · Opened Nov 9, 2021
Community-tools onboarding bugs Open

Epic

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

chef/chef-workstation#2345 · Opened Oct 21, 2021
Dev setup: Telemetry Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

chef/chef-workstation#2324 · Opened Oct 5, 2021
Migrate knife supermarket to chef supermarket Open

Epic Status: Untriaged

chef/chef-workstation#2303 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 28, 2021
Brew install automatically starts on boot, Startup checkbox is not checked Open

Triage: Confirmed

chef/chef-workstation#2285 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 14, 2021

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