Installing and configuring a Chef workstation

Before installing a Chef client for preparing a workstation, let's try to verify whether the Chef client has been installed:

1. Execute the chef-client -version command to verify whether the Chef client has been installed:

               [mitesh@devops1 Desktop]$ chef-client -version
               bash: chef-client: command not found
   

2. As you can see in the output of the previous command, the Chef client is not installed. Now, navigate to the directory where the Chef client installable is stored using the cd command:

               [mitesh@devops1 Desktop]$ cd chef/
               [mitesh@devops1 chef]$ ls
               chef-12.9.41-1.el6.x86_64.rpmchefdk-0.13.21-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
   

3. Run the downloaded Chef client RPM using rpm -ivh chef-<version>.rpm:

               [mitesh@devops1 chef]$ rpm -ivh chef-12.9.41-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
               warning: chef-12.9.41-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4DSA/SHA1 Signature,                 key ID 83ef826a:...