Setup Chef-Server

Method here used to setup chef-server is by using docker image.

Pre-requisites:-

To install a docker image, docker must be installed. Follow Install docker link for this.

Chef-server docker image is available on Docker Hub here.

Step 1 : Pull docker image 

# Pull image from Docker Hub
docker pull base/chef-server

# Verify image is available locally
docker images

Step 2 : Start container from image that will start chef-server

We will start a container using image base/chef-server.
PORT 443 of container will be published to port 443 of host machine (-p host_port:container_port). So, chef-server page will be available at localhost:443.

# Docker Run
docker run --privileged -t --name chef-server -d -p 443:443 base/chef-server

Step 3 : Login to chef manage console

  • Open link https://localhost:443 in your browser.
  • Enter username and password, available on the page.
  • Login to the portal.
  • You are now all set to use Chef-server.