Docs

Getting Started

Welcome to Cinc. These pages walk through installing and using each of the projects in the Cinc family. Every Cinc project is feature-compatible with its upstream Chef counterpart — install instructions mostly differ in URLs and binary names.

Cinc Client

A free distribution of Chef Infra Client.

Cinc Workstation

Tools for authoring cookbooks, policies, and tests.

Cinc Auditor

A free distribution of Chef InSpec for compliance auditing.

Cinc Server

A free distribution of Chef Infra Server.

Container images

Official Docker Hub images for Client, Auditor, and Workstation.

Test Kitchen with Cinc

Using kitchen-cinc or kitchen-dokken to run cookbook tests against Cinc Client.

Migrating from Chef

How to switch existing Chef setups over to Cinc, per project.

Where everything lives

Binaries and packages: downloads.cinc.sh
Omnitruck: omnitruck.cinc.sh
Gems: rubygems.cinc.sh
Source and pipelines: gitlab.com/cinc-project
Upstream documentation: docs.chef.io — Cinc behavior is identical to upstream, so all Chef docs apply.

EULA compliance

The Download page lists the minimum versions that are considered compliant with Chef’s trademark policy. Please use only those versions or newer.