# Rhel 7

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [July 4, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581 "2014-07-04T20:10:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steven\_Barre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/steven_barre/32/296_2.png) [@Steven\_Barre](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Steven_Barre)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581/1 "2014-07-04T20:10:30Z")

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Is there any info on when RHEL 7 will be supported by chef-client?

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Steven Barre, RHCE, ZCE, MCP  
[steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)

# Systems Administrator / Programmer Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893

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**Author:** ![steve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/steve/32/294_2.png) [@steve](https://discourse.chef.io/u/steve)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581/2 "2014-07-05T06:36:05Z")

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This obviously isn't a canonical answer, but it's the start of a holiday  
weekend and if you're stuck on testing something a community answer now is  
better than nothing, so...

If you're looking to see if it will work at all, you can take a look at the  
omnibus-chef project on GitHub, which is the source code for the process  
that generates the official Chef installers. If you have a RHEL 7 image  
handy you can try building the project on it.

Also, if RHEL7's Ruby environment is new enough, you might be able to get  
going with just "gem install chef" ... (!!!)

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Steven Barre \<  
[steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)\> wrote:

> Is there any info on when RHEL 7 will be supported by chef-client?
> 
> # --
> 
> Steven Barre, RHCE, ZCE, MCP  
> [steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)
> 
> # Systems Administrator / Programmer Real Estate Webmasters - 250-753-9893

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**Author:** ![Stephen\_Nelson\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Stephen\_Nelson\_Smith](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Stephen_Nelson_Smith)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581/3 "2014-07-05T09:18:03Z")

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Hi,

On 4 July 2014 21:10, Steven Barre [steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com) wrote:

> Is there any info on when RHEL 7 will be supported by chef-client?

What do you mean by 'supported' ?

RHEL7 is based on Fedora 19, which has been supported since its existence.

Chef will work on RHEL7 with the shipped Ruby, and I'd be astonished  
if the RPM didn't just work, since it works on Fedora.

If you want an omnibus package, you can make one yourself by checking  
out Omnibus Chef, and building it on your RHEL7 machine.

Are you having any specific issues?

S.

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**Author:** ![Adam\_Jacob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/adam_jacob/32/292_2.png) [@Adam\_Jacob](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Adam_Jacob)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581/4 "2014-07-07T18:22:30Z")

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Also, you should be able to just use the RHEL 6 omnibus and have it Just  
Work (tm).

Adam

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith \<  
[stephen@atalanta-systems.com](mailto:stephen@atalanta-systems.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 4 July 2014 21:10, Steven Barre [steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)  
> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any info on when RHEL 7 will be supported by chef-client?
> 
> What do you mean by 'supported' ?
> 
> RHEL7 is based on Fedora 19, which has been supported since its existence.
> 
> Chef will work on RHEL7 with the shipped Ruby, and I'd be astonished  
> if the RPM didn't just work, since it works on Fedora.
> 
> If you want an omnibus package, you can make one yourself by checking  
> out Omnibus Chef, and building it on your RHEL7 machine.
> 
> Are you having any specific issues?
> 
> S.

--  
Opscode, Inc.  
Adam Jacob, Chief Dev Officer  
T: (206) 619-7151 E: [adam@opscode.com](mailto:adam@opscode.com)

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**Author:** ![Lamont\_Granquist\_OLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7feea3/32.png) [@Lamont\_Granquist\_OLD](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Lamont_Granquist_OLD)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/rhel-7/5581/5 "2014-07-07T18:46:18Z")

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Since internally we use CentOS and CentOS 7 was just released today we  
obviously don't have it in jenkins yet and don't have builders and  
testers for it.

I've run the RHEL6 builds on fedora 20 and they flame tested fine for  
me, and we haven't heard of any issues. Omnibus will serve up the RHEL6  
builds if you hit it from a RHEL7 box so 'curl | bash' or the chef-full  
bootstrap should work fine.

On Mon Jul 7 11:22:30 2014, Adam Jacob wrote:

> Also, you should be able to just use the RHEL 6 omnibus and have it  
> Just Work (tm).
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith  
> \<[stephen@atalanta-systems.com](mailto:stephen@atalanta-systems.com) [mailto:stephen@atalanta-systems.com](mailto:stephen@atalanta-systems.com)\>  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 4 July 2014 21:10, Steven Barre  
> \<[steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)  
> [mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com](mailto:steven@realestatewebmasters.com)\> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any info on when RHEL 7 will be supported by chef-client?
> 
> What do you mean by 'supported' ?
> 
> RHEL7 is based on Fedora 19, which has been supported since its  
> existence.
> 
> Chef will work on RHEL7 with the shipped Ruby, and I'd be astonished  
> if the RPM didn't just work, since it works on Fedora.
> 
> If you want an omnibus package, you can make one yourself by checking  
> out Omnibus Chef, and building it on your RHEL7 machine.
> 
> Are you having any specific issues?
> 
> S.
> 
> --  
> Opscode, Inc.  
> Adam Jacob, Chief Dev Officer  
> T: (206) 619-7151 E: [adam@opscode.com](mailto:adam@opscode.com) [mailto:adam@opscode.com](mailto:adam@opscode.com)