Get started with Chef 360 Platform

This section is a quickstart guide to using Chef 360 Platform and its tools.

How Chef 360 Platform works

Chef 360 Platform consists of three main components:

Chef 360 Platform CLIs: Users use the CLIs to define and invoke Chef Courier jobs, and configure user accounts, tenants, organizations, and nodes.
Chef 360 Platform Server: Manages users, organizations, and tenants, schedules and distributes Courier jobs, and monitors nodes and job results.
Chef skills: Chef 360 Platform installs skills on each node that manage the node, execute jobs, and report to Chef 360 Platform.

This guide walks you through the following steps:

Installing Chef 360 Platform Server in a single-node Kubernetes cluster.
Installing Chef 360 Platform CLIs on a local workstation and registering it with Chef 360 Platform Server.
Enrolling a node with Chef 360 Platform Server. Nodes can be enrolled using a Chef 360 Platform CLI or by uploading a Chef Infra cookbook if Chef Infra Client is already installed on the node.
Defining and running a basic job on a node, and reviewing the job’s execution details and the results of each step.