From the course: Learning Chef
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Install the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
From the course: Learning Chef
Install the Chef development kit (ChefDK)
- [Voiceover] I wanted to take a moment to talk about how I've set up my machine for this class. Essentially, we're going to take a look at installing the Chef development kit, which is a collection of tools that we can use to get started with Chef. If you're interested in how I've set up my machine, definitely take a look at downloads.chef.io. On their downloads page, you'll find the Chef development kit. It's a collection of tools that streamlines the process of actually building, developing, and testing your Chef code. It's going to contain a lot of tools that you'll see me demonstrating in this course, like chef generate, chef-client, knife, and test kitchen. You're welcome to check out the downloads section and install it on your machine, if you'd like to follow along with any of the exercises. Now, it's not super-important to understand how the Chef development kit is installed, but you should know that it's built on top of the Ruby programming language. The Chef development kit…
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