Chef doesn't offer a omnibus chef-client for raspberry pi yet. This bootstrap script helps get around that by using ruby2.3 from Stretch and gem installing chef-client onto the node.
Before you start check the following:
- your chef workstation environment is setup and ready with knife
- your pi is on the network and you can login as root
This script has been tested against raspbian-jessie but should likely work gracefully for other linux systems.
knife bootstrap -t raspbian-jessie-gems.erb -x root address_of_your_pi
Or to sudo in via pi user if you don't have root access (I set up my ssh keys first)
knife bootstrap -t raspbian-jessie-gems.erb --ssh-user pi --sudo address_of_your_pi
A full on example of one that applies What I personally will be doing later for new Pi's is applying my d-base cookbook as part of default run list.
knife bootstrap -t raspbian-jessie-gems.erb --ssh-user pi --ssh-password '{{password}}' --sudo --node-name NODE_NAME_YOU_WANT --run-list 'recipe[d-base::default]'
- pi's clock will be synchronized and pi running ntpd (network time protocol daemon).
/usr/local/bin/chef-clientto run chef-client with right path for chef & ruby.
- @tinoschroeter : Tino Schröter as original author
- @dayne : dayne updated and evolved to support Chef 12
- @in-bto : ino-bto for trusted certs forwarding to client node
- @Edubits: Edubits updated to Jessie