CINC Project

CINC Project maintains a focused portfolio centered on infrastructure automation, with its flagship CINC Workstation providing a unified entry point for teams adopting Chef-compatible tooling across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments. The distribution bundles the open-source Cinc Client, Cinc CLI, Test Kitchen, Cookstyle, InSpec, Knife, and associated dependencies into a single installer, eliminating the usual multi-step setup that can delay DevOps onboarding. Typical use cases span initial cookbook development in local VMs, continuous pipeline validation with Test Kitchen drivers, compliance scanning through InSpec profiles, and centralized cookbook artifact management via private Supermarket mirrors. By wrapping the entire toolchain in a version-locked, platform-native package, CINC Workstation lets system administrators, site reliability engineers, and infrastructure developers maintain parity between laptops, CI runners, and production nodes without wrestling with Ruby environment managers or dependency conflicts. The upstream Cinc stack is engineered to remain binary-compatible with the commercial Chef ecosystem, so recipes, custom resources, and policyfiles written against the workstation transfer seamlessly to Cinc-managed servers or legacy Chef Infra fleets. Organizations migrating away from licensed Chef often adopt the workstation first to validate existing codebases under the open-source runtime before touching production nodes. CINC Project software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always pulling the latest release and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.