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            header1="Lifecycle guide for Chef Client from Progress Software"
            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Chef Client?</item>
        <item type="paragraph" imgLink="content-end-of-life-product-release-version-database.xml" alt="Automate product release and end-of-life management" img="../img/product-release-version-end-of-life/progress-software-chef-client.svg"><![CDATA[Chef Infra Client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef Infra Server. When Chef Infra Client runs, it performs all of the steps required for bringing a node into the expected state.]]></item>

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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Chef Client</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Chef Client. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Chef Client (Progress Software)</item>
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