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Installing the Chef Development Kit on your workstation

If you want to use Chef, you'll need to install the Chef Development Kit (DK) on your local workstation first. You'll have to develop your configurations locally and use Chef to distribute them to your Chef server.

Chef provides a fully packaged version, which does not have any external prerequisites. This fully packaged Chef is called the omnibus installer. We'll see how to use it in this section.

How to do it…

Let's see how to install the Chef DK on your local workstation using Chef's omnibus installer:

  1. Download the Chef DK for your specific workstation platform from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ and run the installer.

  2. Verify that Chef installed all the required components:

    mma@laptop:~ $ chef verify
...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...
Verification of component 'test-kitchen' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chefspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'rubocop' succeeded.
Verification of component 'knife-spork' succeeded.
Verification of component 'openssl' succeeded.
Verification of component 'delivery-cli' succeeded.
Verification of component 'opscode-pushy-client' succeeded.
Verification of component 'berkshelf' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-dk' succeeded.
Verification of component 'fauxhai' succeeded.
Verification of component 'inspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-sugar' succeeded.
Verification of component 'tk-policyfile-provisioner' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-provisioning' succeeded.
Verification of component 'kitchen-vagrant' succeeded.
Verification of component 'git' succeeded.
Verification of component 'chef-client' succeeded.
Verification of component 'generated-cookbooks-pass-chefspec' succeeded.
Verification of component 'package installation' succeeded.

  3. Add the newly installed Ruby to your path:

    mma@laptop:~ $ echo 'export PATH="/opt/chefdk/bin:/opt/chefdk/embedded/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

    Note

    You may not want to use (and don't have to use) ChefDK's Ruby, especially if you are a Rails Developer. If you're happily using your Ruby rvm or rbenv environment, you can continue to do so. Just ensure that ChefDK-provided applications appear first in your PATH, before any gem-installed versions, and you're good to go.

    .chef/encrypted_data_bag_secret

How it works…

The omnibus installer will download Ruby and all required Ruby gems into /opt/chefdk.

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Matthias Marschall

Matthias Marschall is a Software Engineer "made in Germany". His four children make sure that he feels comfortable in lively environments, and stays in control of chaotic situations. A lean and agile engineering lead, he's passionate about continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, and all things DevOps. In recent years, Matthias has helped build several web-based businesses, first with Java and then with Ruby on Rails. He quickly grew into system administration, writing his own configuration management tool before migrating his whole infrastructure to Chef in its early days. In 2008, he started a blog (http://www.agileweboperations.com) together with Dan Ackerson. There, they have shared their ideas about DevOps since the early days of the continually emerging movement. You can find him on Twitter as @mmarschall. Matthias holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf. (FH)) and teaches courses on Agile Software Development at the University of Augsburg. When not writing or coding, Matthias enjoys drawing cartoons and playing Go. He lives near Munich, Germany.
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