# Knife Bootstrap for installing anf configuring chef client

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**Created:** [November 18, 2012, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-bootstrap-for-installing-anf-configuring-chef-client/3311 "2012-11-18T08:55:02Z")\
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Hi,

i am beginner on Chef, i’ve installed chef server using this link  
[http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/)  
and trying to install and configure chef client using knife bootstrap in the  
same link.

but i don’t Knife command working here and guess some packages are missing or  
i’ve have to configure knife as knife --help doesn’t return any thing

so, how can i make knife bootstrap work. please provide me solution for it.

Thanks,  
Goutam

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-bootstrap-for-installing-anf-configuring-chef-client/3311/2 "2012-11-18T09:01:09Z")

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Hey Gautam,

Have you referred the link [1], also checkout the new docs site [2]

Regards,  
Mohit

[1] [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap)  
[2] [http://docs.opscode.com](http://docs.opscode.com)

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:25 PM, goutam [goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i am beginner on Chef, i've installed chef server using this link
> 
> [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/)  
> and trying to install and configure chef client using knife bootstrap in  
> the  
> same link.
> 
> but i don't Knife command working here and guess some packages are missing  
> or  
> i've have to configure knife as knife --help doesn't return any thing
> 
> so, how can i make knife bootstrap work. please provide me solution for it.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Goutam

--  
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Mohit Sethi\*  
Twitter, Github: mohitsethi  
Skype: mohit.sethi7

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Hi Mohit,

i went through this but my question is if knife comand is it self not  
working then do we require any additional packages or some to get it  
working.

for eg:

[root@RHEL55 ~]# knife --help  
-bash: knife: command not found

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Mohit Sethi [mohit@sethis.in](mailto:mohit@sethis.in) wrote:

> Hey Gautam,
> 
> Have you referred the link [1], also checkout the new docs site [2]
> 
> Regards,  
> Mohit
> 
> [1] [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Bootstrap)  
> [2] [http://docs.opscode.com](http://docs.opscode.com)
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:25 PM, goutam [goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i am beginner on Chef, i've installed chef server using this link
> > 
> > [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-scientificlinux-6/)  
> > and trying to install and configure chef client using knife bootstrap in  
> > the  
> > same link.
> > 
> > but i don't Knife command working here and guess some packages are missing  
> > or  
> > i've have to configure knife as knife --help doesn't return any thing
> > 
> > so, how can i make knife bootstrap work. please provide me solution for  
> > it.
> > 
> > Thanks,  
> > Goutam
> 
> --
> 
> Mohit Sethi  
> Twitter, Github: mohitsethi  
> Skype: mohit.sethi7

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Are you running knife on the same machine you installed chef server?

Try running “chef-client -v”. If that also says command not found then you  
don’t have chef-client or it’s related commands knife, chef-solo, ohai  
installed. If you want to install chef-client in a similar manner as you  
did chef-server then do the following.

rpm -Uvh [http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6](http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6) yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp

But if it were up to me I would not use the bootstrap instructions found at

[http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/)

I would use the standard install method provided by Opscode here.  
[http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/)

This will install the latest version of chef-client (including knife) on  
just about any operating system. And it will use the preferred omnibus  
style install rather than a ruby gems style.

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I forgot to mention that once you have chef-client installed you will be  
able to run “knife bootstrap” with appropriate arguments to bootstrap other  
nodes.

Adding the “-d” option to knife bootstrap tells knife what bootstrap  
template to use.

My preference is to just run knife bootstrap without “-d”. That makes sure  
knife is installing chef-client in the most appropriate way for whatever  
operating system I am bootstrapping.

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yes Jeremiah, i am trying this on chef server , i am using Linux  
version 5 and installed rbel5 as rbel6 RPM were not working for me to  
install Chef server.

Do i have to use another node for and use this

rpm -Uvh [http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6](http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6) yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp

to install chef client ?

i am using bootstrap because it will configure the communication b/w  
chef server and client as well , as i don't have much idea how to  
configure it.

so, the question here would be do i have to use bootstrap on other  
node , in which i have to install chef client first but again how it  
will communicate with Chef server ?

Thanks you for your reply !!

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jeremiah Snapp  
[jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com](mailto:jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com) wrote:

> Are you running knife on the same machine you installed chef server?
> 
> Try running "chef-client -v". If that also says command not found then you  
> don't have chef-client or it's related commands knife, chef-solo, ohai  
> installed. If you want to install chef-client in a similar manner as you  
> did chef-server then do the following.
> 
> rpm -Uvh [http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6](http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6) yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp
> 
> But if it were up to me I would not use the bootstrap instructions found at
> 
> [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/)
> 
> I would use the standard install method provided by Opscode here.  
> [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/)
> 
> This will install the latest version of chef-client (including knife) on  
> just about any operating system. And it will use the preferred omnibus style  
> install rather than a ruby gems style.

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“knife bootstrap” is run from a system (typically a management  
workstation) that already has chef-client installed and configured  
correctly. “knife bootstrap” is used to install chef-client on other  
systems (nodes). During the bootstrap process it uses the information  
from your management workstation to correctly configure chef-client on  
the node getting bootstrapped.

The rpms you are using are very out of date but if you want to  
continue down that path for now then I would log into your chef-server  
and install chef-client using these instructions.

[http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/)

Then you should be able to run the following command to configure  
knife on your chef-server. You may need to run it as root. You can  
change chef.admin and ‘~/chef-repo’ to whatever you want.  
cd ~  
knife configure -i --defaults -u chef.admin -r ~/chef-repo  
knife client list

Knife should query the server and display ‘chef.admin’ as proof that  
it’s working.

On your workstation you should just use the chef-client install script  
found at [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/) to install chef-client.

Then you can copy the ~/.chef directory from your chef-server to your  
management workstation. You will also need to copy the  
/etc/chef/validation.pem file from your chef-server to your ~/.chef  
directory on your workstation. You will need to modify the paths and  
probably the url in ~/.chef/knife.rb on your workstation. Now run  
’knife client list’ from your workstation and see if it works.

Now you should be able to run ‘knife bootstrap’ from your workstation  
to bootstrap other systems (nodes).

This new blog post might help you if you’d rather not use [frameos.org](http://frameos.org)’s rpm’s.  
[http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/](http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/)

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Thanks a lot Jeremiah.. 🙂

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jeremiah Snapp  
[jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com](mailto:jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com) wrote:

> "knife bootstrap" is run from a system (typically a management  
> workstation) that already has chef-client installed and configured  
> correctly. "knife bootstrap" is used to install chef-client on other  
> systems (nodes). During the bootstrap process it uses the information  
> from your management workstation to correctly configure chef-client on  
> the node getting bootstrapped.
> 
> The rpms you are using are very out of date but if you want to  
> continue down that path for now then I would log into your chef-server  
> and install chef-client using these instructions.
> 
> [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/)
> 
> Then you should be able to run the following command to configure  
> knife on your chef-server. You may need to run it as root. You can  
> change chef.admin and '~/chef-repo' to whatever you want.  
> cd ~  
> knife configure -i --defaults -u chef.admin -r ~/chef-repo  
> knife client list
> 
> Knife should query the server and display 'chef.admin' as proof that  
> it's working.
> 
> On your workstation you should just use the chef-client install script  
> found at [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/) to install chef-client.
> 
> Then you can copy the ~/.chef directory from your chef-server to your  
> management workstation. You will also need to copy the  
> /etc/chef/validation.pem file from your chef-server to your ~/.chef  
> directory on your workstation. You will need to modify the paths and  
> probably the url in ~/.chef/knife.rb on your workstation. Now run  
> 'knife client list' from your workstation and see if it works.
> 
> Now you should be able to run 'knife bootstrap' from your workstation  
> to bootstrap other systems (nodes).
> 
> This new blog post might help you if you'd rather not use [frameos.org](http://frameos.org)'s rpm's.  
> [http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/](http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/)

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Hi,

while using knife bootstraping it fails out with these errors could  
you please in to it . i've attached the file

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:19 PM, GOUTAM CHIRANIA  
[goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:

> Thanks a lot Jeremiah.. 🙂
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jeremiah Snapp  
> [jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com](mailto:jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > "knife bootstrap" is run from a system (typically a management  
> > workstation) that already has chef-client installed and configured  
> > correctly. "knife bootstrap" is used to install chef-client on other  
> > systems (nodes). During the bootstrap process it uses the information  
> > from your management workstation to correctly configure chef-client on  
> > the node getting bootstrapped.
> > 
> > The rpms you are using are very out of date but if you want to  
> > continue down that path for now then I would log into your chef-server  
> > and install chef-client using these instructions.
> > 
> > [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/)
> > 
> > Then you should be able to run the following command to configure  
> > knife on your chef-server. You may need to run it as root. You can  
> > change chef.admin and '~/chef-repo' to whatever you want.  
> > cd ~  
> > knife configure -i --defaults -u chef.admin -r ~/chef-repo  
> > knife client list
> > 
> > Knife should query the server and display 'chef.admin' as proof that  
> > it's working.
> > 
> > On your workstation you should just use the chef-client install script  
> > found at [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/) to install chef-client.
> > 
> > Then you can copy the ~/.chef directory from your chef-server to your  
> > management workstation. You will also need to copy the  
> > /etc/chef/validation.pem file from your chef-server to your ~/.chef  
> > directory on your workstation. You will need to modify the paths and  
> > probably the url in ~/.chef/knife.rb on your workstation. Now run  
> > 'knife client list' from your workstation and see if it works.
> > 
> > Now you should be able to run 'knife bootstrap' from your workstation  
> > to bootstrap other systems (nodes).
> > 
> > This new blog post might help you if you'd rather not use [frameos.org](http://frameos.org)'s rpm's.  
> > [http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/](http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/)

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You need to change your url in ~/.chef/knife.rb. It has to point to  
your chef-server. Right now it's pointing to localhost.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, GOUTAM CHIRANIA  
[goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> while using knife bootstraping it fails out with these errors could  
> you please in to it . i've attached the file
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:19 PM, GOUTAM CHIRANIA  
> [goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Thanks a lot Jeremiah.. 🙂
> > 
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jeremiah Snapp  
> > [jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com](mailto:jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > "knife bootstrap" is run from a system (typically a management  
> > > workstation) that already has chef-client installed and configured  
> > > correctly. "knife bootstrap" is used to install chef-client on other  
> > > systems (nodes). During the bootstrap process it uses the information  
> > > from your management workstation to correctly configure chef-client on  
> > > the node getting bootstrapped.
> > > 
> > > The rpms you are using are very out of date but if you want to  
> > > continue down that path for now then I would log into your chef-server  
> > > and install chef-client using these instructions.
> > > 
> > > [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/11/04/installing-chef-client-from-rbel-in-rhelcentos/)
> > > 
> > > Then you should be able to run the following command to configure  
> > > knife on your chef-server. You may need to run it as root. You can  
> > > change chef.admin and '~/chef-repo' to whatever you want.  
> > > cd ~  
> > > knife configure -i --defaults -u chef.admin -r ~/chef-repo  
> > > knife client list
> > > 
> > > Knife should query the server and display 'chef.admin' as proof that  
> > > it's working.
> > > 
> > > On your workstation you should just use the chef-client install script  
> > > found at [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/) to install chef-client.
> > > 
> > > Then you can copy the ~/.chef directory from your chef-server to your  
> > > management workstation. You will also need to copy the  
> > > /etc/chef/validation.pem file from your chef-server to your ~/.chef  
> > > directory on your workstation. You will need to modify the paths and  
> > > probably the url in ~/.chef/knife.rb on your workstation. Now run  
> > > 'knife client list' from your workstation and see if it works.
> > > 
> > > Now you should be able to run 'knife bootstrap' from your workstation  
> > > to bootstrap other systems (nodes).
> > > 
> > > This new blog post might help you if you'd rather not use [frameos.org](http://frameos.org)'s rpm's.  
> > > [http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/](http://jtimberman.housepub.org/blog/2012/11/17/install-chef-10-server-on-centos/)

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Hi Goutam,

knife comes from a ruby gem.

Check out  
[http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Workstation+Setup+for+CentOS%2C+Red+Ha](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Workstation+Setup+for+CentOS%2C+Red+Ha)  
t%2C+Fedora to see if that gets on you the right path.

-jimW

On 11/18/12 1:55 AM, "goutam" [goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i am beginner on Chef, i've installed chef server using this link  
> [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-s](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/installing-chef-server-0-10-in-rhel-6-s)  
> cientificlinux-6/  
> and trying to install and configure chef client using knife bootstrap in  
> the  
> same link.
> 
> but i don't Knife command working here and guess some packages are  
> missing or  
> i've have to configure knife as knife --help doesn't return any thing
> 
> so, how can i make knife bootstrap work. please provide me solution for  
> it.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Goutam

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Don't use the [frameos.org](http://frameos.org) repository. They did a great job at the time, but it has been superseded by the Opscode omnibus installation (Google for it; it's the easiest way to find the instructions).

The omnibus installation gives you a more recent version of Chef. Older versions, including I believe the one from [frameos.org](http://frameos.org), didn't support RHEL 6 out of the box.

I would also recommend that you look into understanding the communication between chef client and chef server, since that is central to many aspects of the system. Without understanding it, you probably won't be able to get bootstrap to work.

Fundamentally, it is standard HTTP (over ports 4000 instead of the normal port 80). If you go over a public untrusted network, you would want to use HTTPS, which is a little tricky to set up.

Bootstrap simply uses SSH to connect to the machine you want to bootstrap, and then sends a few commands that downloads and installs chef-client. Once it is installed, it simply runs chef-client as normal.

-----Original message-----  
From: GOUTAM CHIRANIA [goutamchiraniya@gmail.com](mailto:goutamchiraniya@gmail.com)  
Sent: Sun 11-18-2012 02:38 am  
Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Knife Bootstrap for installing anf configuring chef client  
To: [chef@lists.opscode.com](mailto:chef@lists.opscode.com);  
yes Jeremiah, i am trying this on chef server , i am using Linux  
version 5 and installed rbel5 as rbel6 RPM were not working for me to  
install Chef server.

Do i have to use another node for and use this

rpm -Uvh [http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6](http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6) yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp

to install chef client ?

i am using bootstrap because it will configure the communication b/w  
chef server and client as well , as i don't have much idea how to  
configure it.

so, the question here would be do i have to use bootstrap on other  
node , in which i have to install chef client first but again how it  
will communicate with Chef server ?

Thanks you for your reply !!

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jeremiah Snapp  
[jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com](mailto:jeremiah.snapp@gmail.com) wrote:

> Are you running knife on the same machine you installed chef server?
> 
> Try running "chef-client -v". If that also says command not found then you  
> don't have chef-client or it's related commands knife, chef-solo, ohai  
> installed. If you want to install chef-client in a similar manner as you  
> did chef-server then do the following.
> 
> rpm -Uvh [http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6](http://rbel.frameos.org/rbel6) yum install -y ruby rubygem-chef ntp
> 
> But if it were up to me I would not use the bootstrap instructions found at
> 
> [http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/](http://blog.frameos.org/2011/05/19/bootstraping-rhelcentos-6-chef-0-10-nodes-using-rbel-rpms/)
> 
> I would use the standard install method provided by Opscode here.  
> [http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/](http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/)
> 
> This will install the latest version of chef-client (including knife) on  
> just about any operating system. And it will use the preferred omnibus style  
> install rather than a ruby gems style.