# Tips to Install the Chef Dev Kit

The Chef Development Kit (often written Chef DK or ChefDK) is something you install on the workstation that you intend to use for deploying and managing a BigchainDB production node. It can be installed on Windows, Mac OS X, and many Linux distributions.

The official Chef documentation has [a page about installing Chef DK](https://docs.chef.io/install_dk.html), so we recommend you follow that.

Coming soon: tips for instaling Chef DK on Ubuntu.