Installation

manual

https://docs.chef.io/install_server.html

1. Download the latest Chef server core https://downloads.chef.io/
wget https://path/chef-servercore.deb

2. Install Chef Server
sudo dpkg -i chef-server-core_*.deb

3. Remove the download file
rm chef-server-core_*.deb

3. The next step in the upgrade process is to run
sudo chef-server-ctl upgrade

After the upgrade command completes, your Chef services will remain in a down state. To bring them back up run:
sudo chef-server-ctl start

Then, to remove configuration files, logs, directories, users, etc. that were used by internal services that have been removed from this version of Chef Server, please run (Add the ‘—no-op’ option to see what would be removed by this command):
sudo chef-server-ctl cleanup

4. Run the chef-server-ctl command to start the Chef server services
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

5. If you want Web Manager go to _setupFeature/ChefManage file to configure

you may want to create user and organization before setting up Web Manager

Create User and Organization

1. mkdir ~/.chef

2. create admin user
sudo chef-server-ctl user-create username firstname lastname email password —filename ~/.chef/username.pem

3. create organization
sudo chef-server-ctl org-create shortname fullname —association_user username —filename ~/.chef/shortname.pem

host it in cloud

To have a trial ChefServer hosted online

1. go to https://manage.chef.io/signup to signup
2. go to https://api.chef.io/login to login

Features

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https://docs.chef.io/install_server.html

Chef Manage

Web UI to configure Chef Server

1. sudo chef-server-ctl install chef-manage
2. sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
3. sudo chef-manage-ctl reconfigure
4. go to https://localhost:80

Chef Push Jobs

1. sudo chef-server-ctl install opscode-push-jobs-server
2. sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
3. sudo opscode-push-jobs-server-ctl reconfigure

Chef Report

1. sudo chef-server-ctl install opscode-reporting
2. sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
3. sudo opscode-reporting-ctl reconfigure

Commands

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1. Run the chef-server-ctl command to start the Chef server services:
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

sudo chef-server-ctl start
sudo chef-server-ctl restart
sudo chef-server-ctl stop
sudo chef-server-ctl status

2. Remove the Chef server application, but without removing any of the data
chef-server-ctl uninstall

3. To revert the uninstall subcommand, run the reconfigure subcommand (because the start subcommand is disabled by the uninstall command).
sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure