Configure your workstation

configure-your-workstation.md

Step 1: Configure your workstation to talk to chef-server

First you'll need to install Chef-Workstation on your laptop. This includes all the tools you need to use Chef.

https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/0.17.5

Test your chef-workstation install with chef --version command.

Chef Workstation version: 0.7.4
Chef Infra Client version: 15.1.36
Chef InSpec version: 4.7.3
Test Kitchen version: 2.2.5
Foodcritic version: 16.1.1
Cookstyle version: 5.0.0

Chef-Workstation includes the knife command line, which lets you interface with Chef-Server.

Add a config file at.chef/config.rb.

You'll need to set the following:

chef_server_url, the FQDN to your chef-serve with /organizations/org-name Mine was demo-org.

client_key, Full path to your client key no ~/ this was created in step 5--filename /tmp/ericc.pem when you created your user on the Chef-Server

node name, this is the username you created ericc

chef_server_url 'https://FQDNgoesHERE.com/organizations/demo-org'  
client_key '/Full/PathGoesHere/.chef/ericc.pem'
node_name 'ericc'

Step 2: Test knife from your laptop to chef-server

We need to grab the self-signed cert & add it to .chef/trusted_certs

knife ssl fetch

Now we can validate the Cert is valid

knife ssl check

Connecting to host FQDN:443
Successfully verified certificates from `FQDN

You can also confirm the user we created earlier.

knife user list
ericc