Define
The Chef Habitat Studio is a development kit for creating automated build and deployment plans for any application and then testing them in a clean-room environment.
- Define how your application is built, installed, and run with PowerShell or Bash and your code editor of choice.
- Isolate dependencies into atomic plans and then build an Application Manifest which links to all direct & transitive runtime dependencies and provides tuneable instructions to install and run the app.
- Leverage hundreds of pre-built plans for common dependencies such as .NET, jdk or gcc on the Chef Habitat community on GitHub.
Package
Habitat packages the Application Manifest into an immutable artifact called the Habitat Application Artifact (.HART) file. Artifacts can be exported to run in a variety of runtimes with zero refactoring or rewriting.
- Create a package in the local Studio or integrate with any automated pipeline solution using the same commands and build processes.
- Simplify audit and compliance processes by explicitly defining application dependencies and packaging an application with only what is required.
- Easily export to tarball, Docker, or directly to container registries (Azure Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, or Docker Hub).
Deliver
The Habitat Supervisor is a light-weight agent that runs on/in a server, virtual machine, or container and manages the application according to the instructions defined in the Habitat Plan. Tasks are defined via pre-set scripts called lifecycle hooks that are included as part of the application definition.
- Deploy and upgrade an application to any environment on-demand.
- Automate health and compliance checks.
- Templatize your configuration settings and update them as needed during runtime.
