In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Chef on the OpenSUSE latest operating system. Chef is a configuration management system used to automate the process of setting up and managing infrastructure. The installation will be done with the help of a command-line tool called zypper.
Before we start with the installation process, make sure your OpenSUSE system is up-to-date by running the following command:
sudo zypper update
Before installing Chef, we need to install some pre-requisite packages that are necessary for Chef to function. Run the following command to install them:
sudo zypper install curl wget tar
Visit the Chef website https://www.chef.io/chef/ to download the latest version of the Chef client. Scroll down to the "Download" section and select "Linux" from the list of available operating systems. You will see a list of available versions of Chef. Choose the latest release and copy the link to the chef package.
We will use the wget command to download the Chef package. Run the following command and replace the download URL we have used with the URL you have copied.
sudo wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/17.5.16/el/8/chef-17.5.16-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
After downloading the package, we will install Chef using the rpm command:
sudo rpm -ivh chef-*.rpm
This command will install the Chef package along with all its dependencies.
We should now verify if Chef has been successfully installed on our system. Run the following command to verify the installation:
chef-client --version
If the installation was successful, you should see the version number of the Chef client printed on your console.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Chef on OpenSUSE latest using the zypper package manager. Once the installation is complete, you can configure Chef on your system to automate the configuration management of various infrastructure components.
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