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CHEF CLIENT VERSUS CHEF DEVELOPMENT KIT
Chef Client (also known as the Chef Omnibus Installer ) contains the core components of Chef
needed to manage a server or workstation. The installer comprises the entire collection of things
necessary to run Chef; thus, it is an omnibus installer. Chef Client bundles core application scripts
along with the necessary Ruby scripting engine. In production environments, Chef Client is in-
stalled on every system intended to be managed by Chef.
The Chef Development Kit is a superset of Chef Client. If you install the Chef Development Kit,
there is no need to install the Chef Client. Chef Development Kit includes all the components of
Chef Client, plus the Chef Development Kit additional best-of-breed tools developed by the Chef
community, in one package. Several community-developed tools have become part of the stand-
ard Chef development workflow for many, so now they are bundled together into an officially
supported Chef product.
Skip ahead to the installation section for your operating system of choice:
▪ Linux: Install the Chef Development Tools on Linux
▪ Mac OS X: Install the Chef Development Tools on Mac OS X
▪ Windows: Install the Chef Development Tools on Windows
Install the Chef Development Tools on Linux
You will need an Internet connection and root access on your computer in order to install the
Chef development tools on Linux.
Visit the Chef downloads page to download the installation package for your distribution of
Linux.
Follow the Chef Development Kit link as shown in Figure 2-2 to see if there is an installation
package available for your platform.
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