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Summary

Congratulations! If you have gotten this far, you now have a fully functional Chef service and a copy of the command-line utilities, including chef-solo. You now have covered the following:

Using RVM
Installing chef-solo
Creating a simple recipe
Running recipes with chef-solo
Installing the Chef service
Getting started with the knife utility
Verifying that your Chef service is operating correctly

Now that you are able to use your Chef service, we can begin to investigate how to model our environment with Chef and see what it can do for us.

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