Provisioning Vagrant with Chef

There are four different ways to use Chef to provision a Vagrant machine that Vagrant supports. This means that Chef has the most options in Vagrant when it comes to provisioning. The four options are as follows:

• Chef Solo
• Chef Zero
• Chef Client
• Chef Apply

In this chapter, we will be focusing on Chef Solo and Chef Client. This will give you a good mixture of provisioning on the host machine and the Vagrant machine.

Installing Chef on macOS

Before we can begin using Chef, we will first need to install it. We'll learn how to install Chef on the macOS operating system (the High Sierra 10.13 version).

We'll be installing the Chef DK (development kit), which includes all of the dependencies...