raspbian_bootstrap

To install chef-client on raspberry pi (raspbian).

Before you start make sure of the following

• your chef workstation envornment is setup and ready for knife
• your pi is on the network and you can login as root
• have some patience - this will take a while

installation

knife bootstrap -t raspbian-wheezy-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-wheezy-gems.erb --ssh-user pi --sudo address_of_your_pi

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-wheezy-gems.erb --ssh-user pi --ssh-password '{{password}}' --sudo --node-name NODE_NAME_YOU_WANT --run-list 'recipe[d-base::default]'

Ramifications of doing this

The pi will have ruby-build installed in /usr/local/bin so you can build more ruby fun if you want.

You'll have /opt/chef with a ruby 2.2 compiled from ruby-build.

Your pi's clock will be sycnronized and you'll will be running ntp.

You'll have a /usr/local/bin/chef-client to run chef-client with right path for chef & ruby.

Note: This bootstraps just runs chef-client once. This does not setup any chef-client as a daemon stuff.