Chef Server Installation

Note:
Installing Chef server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Cloud platform used is google cloud platform. Make sure you have proper FQDN

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

sudo locale-gen en_GB.UTF-8
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 && export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 && export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 && export LC_TYPE=en_US.UTF-8

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Kolkata

wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/12.16.14/ubuntu/16.04/chef-server-core_12.16.14-1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i chef-server-core_12.16.14-1_amd64.deb

sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

sudo chef-server-ctl install chef-manage
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
sudo chef-manage-ctl reconfigure --accept-license

sudo chef-server-ctl user-create USER_NAME FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME EMAIL 'PASSWORD' --filename FILE_NAME.pem

sudo chef-server-ctl org-create short_name 'full_organization_name' --association_user user_name --filename ORGANIZATION-validator.pem

sudo mkdir -p ~/.chef
sudo mv admin.pem skydevops-validator.pem ~/.chef

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