[chef] Re: bootstrapping chef

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Joshua Blatt 
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 wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm relatively new to Chef, but I've already noticed that one of the biggest
> pains we have is getting Chef to work on a new platform.   Once Chef works
> we leave the world of crappy shell scripts and enter the world of Chef.
>
> Has anyone come up with any nice scripts to get Chef and its dependencies
> installed and happy on a variety of platforms/images?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh

The "omnibus" route is the best one, imho. Alternately, packaging a
ruby + chef install with fpm is the other one.

- http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ ;(omnibus installer)
- http://github.com/jordansissel/fpm ;(fpm)