[chef] Re: Chef client vs chef-dk

[Ranjib Dey < >]

chef-dk is chef-client + other chef related tools (berkshelf, test-kitchen, foodcritic etc). chef-dk also provides the chef command (currently it provides scaffolding and gem installation [1]). If you are not familiar with ruby, you might find chef-dk easier to deal with. If you are already familiar with ruby/bundler it should not matter much (infact you might be able to get more customized things by raw chef-client + bundler,, i have painful experience from vagrant's plugin in past ). chef-dk will also fasten then installation process (since its omnibus), this also means you have to install it as root, unlike the chef-client which can be installed as normal user (for development workstations).

[1]https://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/15/chef-development-kit/

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Vikas Roonwal < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

I have a chef server on a linux machine and want to use a windows machine to upload cookbooks.
I notice that there are 2 options:
1. Chef client - it seems to contains items for both client and workstation
2. Chef-dk - it seems to contain items related to workstation alone.

I wanted to know if the above understanding is correct?

Also - which would be a better choice since both enable knife and cookbook related commands.

Thanks for your time and suggestions.
~Vikas