The following document is intended to be a quick guide to getting you setup for doing local development with Chef. This guide was created on my MacBook, but should work fine with Linux, and Windows workstations as well.
- Workstation - A workstation is a computer that is configured to run various Chef command-line tools that synchronize with a chef-repo, author cookbooks, interact with the Chef server, interact with nodes, or applications like Chef Delivery
- Node - A node is any machine—physical, virtual, cloud, network device, etc.—that is under management by Chef.
- Chef Server- The Chef server acts as a hub for configuration data. The Chef server stores cookbooks, the policies that are applied to nodes, and metadata that describes each registered
