Installing and configuring a Chef workstation

Let's verify whether the Chef client has been installed on the system or virtual machine where we want to configure the Chef workstation:

1. Execute the chef-client -version command; if we get the command not found error, then it means that the Chef client is not installed. If the Chef client is installed, then it will give the version number:

        [mitesh@devops1 Desktop]$ chef-client -version
        bash: chef-client: command not found

2. Go to the directory where the Chef client installable is downloaded:

        [mitesh@devops1 Desktop]$ cd chef/
        [mitesh@devops1 chef]$ ls
        chef-12.9.41-1.el6.x86_64.rpmchefdk-0.13.21-
        1.el6.x86_64.rpm

3. Run the Chef client RPM using rpm -ivh chef-<version>.rpm:

        [mitesh@devops1 chef]$ rpm -ivh chef-12.9.41-   
        1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        warning: chef-12.9.41-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header 
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