Chef Workstation installs everything you need to get started using Chef on Windows, Mac and Linux; and is currently focused around performing ad-hoc tasks on your server.
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Download Chef Workstation
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Double-click the
.dmg
or.msi
file to start the install process. Or install the Linux package for your platform. -
Open a command-line terminal, and try out some chef-cli commands
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Run
chef -h
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Want to perform an ad-hoc task? Try
chef target converge <Target host|IP|SSH|WinRM> <Resource> <Resource Name> [properties] [flags]
chef target converge user@hostname user timmy
chef target converge winrm://user@hostname:port user timmy
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We use Omnibus to describe our packaging. Please review chef-workstation/omnibus/README.MD for further details.
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