Chef is an open source configuration management tool that can automate your infrastructure tasks. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Chef on Linux Mint step by step.
To follow this tutorial, you need to have the following prerequisites:
Follow the below steps to install Chef on your Linux Mint machine.
First, we need to add Chef's Apt repository to our system package sources using the following command:
sudo curl -L https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | sudo bash
The above command will add Chef’s key to your system, download the installation script and run it.
Now we can use the Apt package manager to install the Chef package on our machine. Run the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chef
This command will update the package lists and install the Chef package on your machine.
To verify Chef installation, run the following command:
chef-client --version
If installation is successful, the command will return the current version of Chef installed on your machine.
In this tutorial, we have shown the step-by-step instructions to install Chef on Linux Mint. You should be able to follow these steps and have a fully functional Chef installation running on your Linux Mint machine.
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