[chef] Re: Add Client to Chef Server Immediately?

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On Tue Aug 12 14:31:00 2014, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Anyone,
>
> I remember seeing a trick recently, where a certain invocation of the
> chef-client (with -z I believe) would allow a new node to report the
> data it normally sends to a chef server at the end of it's run. This
> would allow cookbooks that use chef search to work the first time.
> Anyone know what it is?
>
> Douglas.

chef-client -z spins up a chef-zero server and points the client at it:

https://gist.github.com/lamont-granquist/b559886607a72515f262