Don't use the frameos.org repository. They did a great job at the time, but it has been superseded by the Opscode omnibus installation (Google for it; it's the easiest way to find the instructions).
The omnibus installation gives you a more recent version of Chef. Older versions, including I believe the one from frameos.org, didn't support RHEL 6 out of the box.
I would also recommend that you look into understanding the communication between chef client and chef server, since that is central to many aspects of the system. Without understanding it, you probably won't be able to get bootstrap to work.
Fundamentally, it is standard HTTP (over ports 4000 instead of the normal port 80). If you go over a public untrusted network, you would want to use HTTPS, which is a little tricky to set up.
Bootstrap simply uses SSH to connect to the machine you want to bootstrap, and then sends a few commands that downloads and installs chef-client. Once it is installed, it simply runs chef-client as normal.
-----Original message-----
From: GOUTAM CHIRANIA < >
Sent: Sun 11-18-2012 02:38 am
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Knife Bootstrap for installing anf configuring chef client
To: ;
yes Jeremiah, i am trying this on chef server , i am using Linux
version 5 and installed rbel5 as rbel6 RPM were not working for me to
install Chef server.
Do i have to use another node for and use this
rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6 yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp
to install chef client ?
i am using bootstrap because it will configure the communication b/w
chef server and client as well , as i don't have much idea how to
configure it.
so, the question here would be do i have to use bootstrap on other
node , in which i have to install chef client first but again how it
will communicate with Chef server ?
Thanks you for your reply !!
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jeremiah Snapp
< > wrote:
> Are you running knife on the same machine you installed chef server?
>
> Try running "chef-client -v". If that also says command not found then you
> don't have chef-client or it's related commands knife, chef-solo, ohai
> installed. If you want to install chef-client in a similar manner as you
> did chef-server then do the following.
>
> rpm -Uvh http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6 yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp
>
> But if it were up to me I would not use the bootstrap instructions found at
>
> http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/
>
> I would use the standard install method provided by Opscode here.
> http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/
>
> This will install the latest version of chef-client (including knife) on
> just about any operating system. And it will use the preferred omnibus style
> install rather than a ruby gems style.
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