Chef is not new to Azure and hence you will find lot of tutorials on you can use chef to interact with Azure. The issue is that most of these tutorials deal with the ASM (Azure Service Management ) portal and not ARM ( Azure Resource Management ) portal . Below is a step-by-step guide on how you can create a Windows Virtual Machine on Azure ARM portal using Chef and then upload a file to the machine using knife. Chef basics – Chef is a configuration management tool. In Chef,