Installing Chef Development Kit

In this section, you will learn how easy it is to get your workstation up and running using the Chef Development Kit. First, you will download ChefDK. Next, you will install ChefDK; and finally, you will validate the installation with some quick version checks.

Downloading ChefDK

You are going to download Chef Development Kit by opening your favorite browser and visiting the Chef.io ChefDK downloads page found at this URL: https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/.

  1. Select the platform you are going to install the Chef Development Kit on and then click on the download button that corresponds to the OS Version you are using. In my case, I am selecting the Mac OS X 10.10 version of the ChefDK installer.
  2. As expected, clicking ...

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