Chef is a popular configuration management tool that allows users to automate the deployment and management of software and infrastructure, including cloud-based systems. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Chef on Elementary OS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation, make sure your system meets the following requirements:
First, we need to ensure that the system is up to date. Open a terminal window and execute the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
This command will update the system package list and install any available updates.
Chef requires several pre-requisites installed on your system before it can be installed. Execute the following command to install the pre-requisites:
sudo apt install -y curl apt-transport-https
This command will install the curl command-line tool and the apt-transport-https package that allows the system to use HTTPS repositories.
To install Chef, we need to add the Chef repository to our system's source list. Execute the following commands to do so:
curl https://packages.chef.io/chef.asc | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://packages.chef.io/repos/apt/current bionic main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chef.list
The first command will download the Chef repository key and add it to your system. The second command adds the Chef repository to the system's sources.
Now we can install the Chef package by running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install chef -y
This command will update the package list and install the Chef package along with its dependencies.
To verify that Chef has been installed, execute the following command:
chef -v
This command will display the current version of Chef installed on the system.
That's it! You have successfully installed Chef on your Elementary OS Latest system. You can now use Chef to automate the deployment and management of your infrastructure.
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