[chef] help required in getting doubts cleared about chef-server and chef-client

[rahul sharma < >]

Hi All,

I have a chef-server configured where I can assign my recipies to particular nodes. Now I have some doubts which I have listed below:-

For creating a chef-client, all we do is install chef-client on that node.
Now we copy the validation.pem in /etc/chef directory.

Let us suppose my client-machine's name is kickseed1

Now for making it able to talk to chef-server, I need the client.pem file.

All I have to do is goto chef-server and create a client with the name "kickseed1" and then copy the generated chef-client key to chef-client's /etc/chef directory.

Only now if we fire chef-client command, our node will be registered to chef-server.

Q1. My question is why do we need to register our machine with machine-name as client  to get the node registered??

Or is it that I have done some wrong configuration??

Q2. Also I am unable to get clearly the distinction between client and node in chef.

Q3. Is it that one physical/virtual machine will correspond to one node and in that node we can have n number of clients(user accounts).

Thanks and Regards
Rahul Sharma