Server

Cinc Server

A free distribution of Chef Infra Server. Stable since 2022.

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Cinc Server is becoming an independent fork. Progress has announced that the open-source Chef Infra Server will reach end-of-life in November 2026 in favor of Chef 360. The Cinc Project will keep rebuilding 15.x releases until then, and is doing the work to maintain Cinc Server independently as a fork (target: 16.0.0). See the announcement blog post for the full plan, or follow along on GitLab.

Install

Using the install script

To install the latest 15.x of Cinc Server on a supported Linux platform:

curl -L https://omnitruck.cinc.sh/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -P cinc-server -v 15

Plain packages

Packages for all supported platforms are at downloads.cinc.sh/files/stable/cinc-server/.

Configuration

Cinc Server reads its configuration from /etc/cinc-project/cinc-server.rb.

Migrating from Chef Server? Configurations are compatible — symlink or copy your existing config as-is.

To finalize setup, run:

cinc-server-ctl reconfigure

Usage

cinc-server-ctl and the associated tools are fully compatible with chef-server-ctl. A wrapper redirects chef-server-ctl invocations to cinc-server-ctl, so existing automation keeps working.

All upstream documentation and Chef classes apply.

High-availability cluster

For an example of running Cinc Server as an HA cluster, see the blog post.

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