Chef 12 Knife Configure

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Chef 12 knife configure.

Knife profiles provide an alternative to using the config rb files for configuring your knife client. Knife configure chef 12 daniel deleo 10 06 2014 chef re. With our chef server and workstation configured we can begin using chef to configure new servers within our infrastructure. This work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 3 0 unported license.

This makes it easier to switch knife between multiple chef infra servers or between multiple organizations on the same chef infra server. This page is about. Configure knife profiles by adding them to the chef. Note see config rb for more information about how to add certain knife options as settings in the config rb file.

Chef knife configure chef 12 idzzy 10 06 2014 chef re. Profile support since chef 13 7. This happens through a process called bootstrapping in which the chef client executable is installed on the new computer and the organizational validator key is passed along as well. Knife configure use the knife.

Use the knife configure subcommand to create the knife rb and client rb files so that they can be distributed to workstations and nodes. The path to the validation key used by the client typically a file named chef validator pem.