Installing Chef Server

Install Chef Server

• This article helps us in understanding how to install chef server
• The script used in this series is available at Refer Here
• Now Lets see how to install chef server
• Create an ubuntu instance (>=18.04) which has atleast 2 vcpu and 8 GB of RAM
• Then execute the following commands

sudo apt-get update
wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/shaikkhajaibrahim/0024485b548588dca33311d6e1801089/raw/bd63d2349b3dedbb77d7f3be433bfe5450bcf275/installchef.sh
sh installchef.sh

• In future if you want to download any other version of chef

sh installchef.sh <chef-infra-package-url>

• Note: This script is developed to run on ubuntu 18.04, with minor changes you should be able to run this on redhat or other flavors also
• Now Navigate to https://publicip and login using default credentials (qtdevops/admin@123)