[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping chef

[Jeremiah Snapp < >]

Another +1 for the omnibus chef-full install.

In fact I use the chef-full knife bootstrap template [1] which can be dropped in ~/.chef/bootstrap/ and used by knife to bootstrap a server with the omnibus chef-client install.  The benefit of this method is that it not only installs chef but it also configures it according to your knife.rb settings.  So the server you are bootstrapping will know what chef-server to connect to as well as what validation key to use and also install any encrypted data bag key you may be using.

[1] https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/chef-full.erb