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System requirements

Before you bootstrap Chef Infra Client on nodes:

  1. Install and configure Chef Infra Server
  2. Install and configure Chef Workstation on your local computer

Chef Infra Client requirements

  • The recommended amount of RAM available to Chef Infra Client during a Chef Infra Client run is 512MB
  • The Chef Infra Client binaries are stored in the /opt/chef directory, which requires a minimum of 200MB of disk space. On Windows, the Chef Infra Client binaries can be found in C:\opscode\, and they require a minimum of 600MB of disk space.
  • The processor must be supported. We recommend a 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor, but the processor speed should be based on the other system loads.
  • Chef Infra Client caches to /var/chef/cache during a Chef Infra Client run. This is the location in which downloaded cookbooks, packages required by those cookbooks, and other large files are stored. This directory requires enough space to save all of this data and should be generously sized. 5GB is a safe number as a starting point, but tune the size of /var/chef/cache as necessary. This location is tunable in a node’s client.rb file using the file_cache_path setting.

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