Bootstrap Preparation

• Ensure Chefdk is installed on Workstation
• Login into Chef Server and Download Starter Kit (One time Job)
• Starter Kit consists of
  • Basic Folder Structure for Cookbooks, Roles and Environments
  • Authentication Mechanism between Workstation and Chef Server
  • Information about Server.
• Create a Linux Node on AWS/Azure/VirtualBox. In this series I will be using AWS.

Bootstrap Process

• Knife:
  • Utility which is installed as part of chefdk
  • Remember to run knife commands with your present working directory in Starter Kit
• Node Bootstrap:
  • Refer Here for official chef docs.
  • In the current scenario, we will be using knife bootstrap

knife bootstrap <publicip> -U <username> -i <pathtoidentify> --sudo -N <fqdn>

• For bootstrap commandline options Refer Here

note: Referred from Chef documentation.