[chef] vagrant and chef server

[Ralph Schwaninger < >]

Hi guys

We are using vagrant based virtualboxes to do our development on. The 
configuration is pulled in via a chef server.

I was wondering how other people deal with the following two questions / 
what best practice is:

1) The validation.pem. I am relucatant to check the key into our git, is 
there a clever way to authenticate with the chef server without the need 
of every developer needing the client validation.pem on their local 
workstation? (I suppose not, but maybe I am missing something?)

2) The fact that a chef server run adds a node and a client entry for 
every box a developer creates. Is there a way to not have this happen? 
As we want to use the central chef server to pull the config from, 
however we are not interested in inventory for them.

Thanks

Ralph