[RESOLVED] Role of chef-validator

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hello Experts,

user@krishnar4:~/.chef$ cat knife.rb
log_level :info
log_location STDOUT
node_name 'krishna’
client_key '/home/user/.chef/xxx.pem’
validation_client_name 'chef-validator’
validation_key '/etc/chef-server/chef-validator.pem’
chef_server_url ‘https://x.x.x.x:443/organizations/krishna’
syntax_check_cache_path ‘/home/user/.chef/syntax_check_cache’
cookbook_path [’/home/user/chef/cookbooks’]
user@krishnar4:~/.chef$

can anyone please tell me what is the role of chef validator?

Krishna

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The chef documentation is quite extensive and good and also their search feature works quite well ;-).
Here are the docs: https://docs.chef.io/server_manage_clients.html#chef-validator-keys