Validating that your service is working
In order to work with Chef, you will need a way to interact with it. Fortunately, Chef provides a suite of command-line utilities, which we will discuss at length as the book progresses. There is one primary tool, knife, that allows an administrator to interact with the service in the command line. The knife tool is run from a workstation and provides many commands to view, search, and modify data maintained by the Chef service. Once you have installed and verified that all the services are running, we can move on to setting up knife.
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You will see that the standard place to store your Chef configuration data is in $HOME/.chef (on a UNIX-like system.) This is not mandatory, and these files can be stored ...
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