I thought I’d share the scripts I use to take a fresh Centos6 install and have it configured to work with a Chef server. Maybe its not as easy as when running in a virtualized environment, but it saves plenty of time.
On the new node I run the setup_client.sh script which calls in the end client_gen.sh on the Chef server once everything is installed on the node. I left the version numbers for Ruby and Chef in the script so you know what versions I’ve tested this with. ...