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The document provides steps to configure the Knife CLI tool to connect to a Chef server. It outlines downloading a starter kit, installing unzip, extracting the files, checking and fetching SSL certificates, and listing clients and cookbooks.

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4 Configure-Chef-workstation-on-ubuntu

The document provides steps to configure the Knife CLI tool to connect to a Chef server. It outlines downloading a starter kit, installing unzip, extracting the files, checking and fetching SSL certificates, and listing clients and cookbooks.

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Configure Knife

Step 1 : Download starter kit from chef server on your desktop

Step 1 A : Winscp the start kit to your chef-workstation


Step 1 C : Instlal unzip package and unzip chef starter kit

# apt-get install unzip

and

unzip chef-starter.zip

Step 2: Check clients (This first attempt should fail with an error that looks like this)

# cd /home/ubuntu/chef-repo

# knife client list

Step 3: Fetch ssl certificate from chef-server

# knife ssl fetch


Step 4 : ensure that you have recived the ssl cert on your workstation

# ls -l /home/ubuntu/chef-repo/.chef/trusted_certs

Step 5 : Once you try to list the ( you should get error as below)

# knife client list

Step 6 : List cookbook o chef server ( none at this moment)

knife cookbook list

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