Installation

The Flavors of Chef

No matter how complex the realities of your business, Chef makes it easy to deploy servers and scale applications throughout your entire infrastructure. Opscode provides different flavors of Chef, so there is a means for you to manage your infrastructure.

To install Chef, follow the directions for the Chef "flavor" that applies to you.

Chef Server + Chef Clients

To use your own Chef Server to manage your nodes, you will need to

1. Install a Chef Server
2. Configure your local workstation
3. Install chef-client on your nodes

Hosted Chef + Chef Clients

Those using Hosted Chef do not need to install a Chef Server. Rather, to begin using Chef to manage your infrastructure, you need to

1. Create a Hosted Chef Account,
2. Configure your local workstation, and
3. Install chef-client on your nodes

The Fast Start Guide provides a tutorial-style step-by-step introduction to using Chef for those using Hosted Chef.

Chef Solo

Those using Chef-Solo to configure nodes within their infrastructure need to

1. Install chef-solo on your nodes, and
2. Configure chef-solo for use

Note that chef-solo is shipped in the same package as chef-client.

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