Mastering Chef Provisioning

Summary

In this chapter, we've taken a quick stroll down memory lane and reviewed some Chef basics so that those concepts are fresh and easy to mentally access during the rest of the journey through this book. Next up, we took a deeper dive into the Chef Development Kit and learned how to download, install, and configure it for our Chef workstation. We've exposed the small gap in the ChefDK installer when used on Mac OS X and Linux systems, which is the setup of the shell environment and learned the simple way (provided by the new Chef tool) to fill that gap. We also explored the setup and configuration of your very own on-premise Chef server, including creating your admin user and the first organization. After this, we took a look at setting ...