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Appendix B. Hosted Enterprise Chef
Hosted Enterprise Chef is the cloud-based version of Chef Server. You can sign up for Hos-
ted Enterprise Chef at no cost to you to manage up to five nodes, more than enough for get-
ting started with Chef Server.
Go to
https://manage.opscode.com/signup
to sign up for a Hosted Enterprise Chef account.
Complete the required fields.
Upon submitting the form, you will be redirected to a page with helpful links and document-
ation. Click on the Download Starter Kit button as shown in
Figure B-1
. This will download
a ZIP file containing all your authentication keys, as well as a pre-populated Chef repo.
Extract the archive and move the
chef-repo
folder into your home directory. The
chef-repo
directory should resemble the following:
chef-repo/
├── .chef
│ ├── <username>.pem
│ ├── <organization>-validator.pem
│ └── knife.rb
├── .gitignore
├── README.md
├── Vagrantfile
├── cookbooks
└── roles
