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The Chef integration for Visual Studio Team Services provides a set of tasks to automate commonly performed build and release activities against the Chef Automate platform.

This site provides detailed documentation on the released tasks.

Getting Started

Agent Compatibility

There are a number of tasks in the extension, most of them work on Windows and Linux in both private and Hosted Agents. However there are a couple of places where this is not the case. The following table shows what tasks will run where.

Task	Private Windows Agent	Private Linux Agent	Hosted Windows Agent	Hosted Linux Agent
Update Cookbook Version Number	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Upload Cookbook to Chef Server	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install ChefDK	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Install Gem	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Execute Knife	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Add Variables to Chef Environment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Release cookbook version to environment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install InSpec	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Excute InSpec	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Execute Chef Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Publish Cookbook to Supermarket	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

**Note: ** To install ChefDK or InSpec on a Private Linux Agent then task process must be running as root or under an account that has passwordless sudo access. For a Private Windows Agent the process must be running with elevated privileges.

Releases

We are continually developing and updating the extension. To keep track of the changes please refer to the release versions below or from the navigation.

1.2.62 1.1.5