Provisioning a server accessible by SSH with Chef solo and knife solo

provision_chef_knife_solo.md

Provision a server with Chef

we have a server which we can access by SSH and we want to provision it using Chef recipes.

knife-solo

knife-solo makes working with chef-solo as powerful as chef-server.

It is recommended to migrate from Chef Solo to Chef Zero — https://blog.chef.io/2014/06/24/from-solo-to-zero-migrating-to-chef-client-local-mode/.

Use knife-zero.

Provision

• install gems

gem install knife-solo
gem install knife-solo_data_bag
gem install berkshelf