[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife configure (chef 12)

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:06 AM, idzzy 
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>> On October 8, 2014 at 1:28:55 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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>> Unsure why you've installed knife-solo; you don't need it if you're
>> interacting with a server.
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> It’s for adding node to chef-server and apply recipes from workstation
> remotely by CLI.
> chef-manage is for checking and confining current state on web browser.
> I’m not familiar with this procedure of chef12.

You can just bootstrap a machine directly with knife and don't need
"knife-solo" to do this, if you are interacting with a Chef server.

http://learn.getchef.com/rhel/bootstrap-your-node/ will teach you how
to do this (there are also variants on that site for Windows and
Ubuntu if you use those OSes)

- Julian

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