From the course: Learning Chef
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Bootstrap a node
- [Instructor] It's time to finally bootstrap a node. Now, I hope you're clear at this point in the class that a node is a server that Chef is managing. This can be any system that can run the Chef client. It might be a web server, an application server, a database, or a load balancer. But when we bootstrap nodes, you should understand that they belong to a particular organization. In the hosted Chef section, you created a new organization. This is what we are actually going to bootstrap nodes to. You'll remember that I opened up AWS in order to grab the public IP addresses for my nodes. I'm going to use these to authenticate to the nodes, along with a username and password. You'll remember the knife commands from before. We use the knife commands to communicate with our Chef server. Knife node is the subnet of commands we're interested in looking at. And first, you might check out running a knife node list. It does exactly what you would expect, lists any nodes that are being managed…
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