[chef] Re: Re: Re: Chef Server installation - Oracle Enterprise Linux - quick question

[mandi walls < >]

Hi Z W,

It's late here, and I don't want to leave you hanging as I am going to bed, but if you're totally new to Chef and configuration management, you'll get a better idea of what Chef can really do for you by signing up for a free account on hosted chef [0] and hooking up a few hosts to it rather than spending time with the Chef Server if Chef ends up not meeting your needs. There's no charge, you don't have to put in a credit card, and any host that has outbound internet access can be added to your chef organization, whether in a public cloud or your own hardware.

The starter guides and other documentation are now at our new docs site [1].  The "Getting Started"  section in particular will give you an idea of what Chef does and how the components interact [2] and how to get your workstation configured and authorized to interact with the Chef server and your nodes [3].

Lots of people love tinkering with their own Chef Server, but there are a lot of components to it that don't really have anything to do with learning actual Chef. It's like trying to run a full blown mail server with antispam, blacklisting, and virus scanning when you've never sent an email before. :) 

cheers,
--mandi


[0] http://www.opscode.com/hosted-chef/
[1] http://docs.opscode.com/
[2] http://docs.opscode.com/chef_overview.html
[3] http://docs.opscode.com/install.html

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Z W < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi AJ

thanks for responding.
I saw the page; looks like it is for the Chef client.
What about Chef Server installation ?
Any quicker method ?

Thanks again.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:11 PM, AJ Christensen < "> > wrote:
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Omnibus+Chef+Client+on+Linux+and+Mac