How To Install chef on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chef on Debian 10.
What is chef
chef is:
Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management library written in Ruby. Chef provides a Ruby library and API that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure.
Chef can be run as a client (chef-client) to a server, or run as a standalone tool (chef-solo). Configuration recipes are written in a pure Ruby DSL.
This package provides the chef-client, chef-solo, and knife binaries as well as the Chef library.
There are three methods to install chef on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install chef Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install chef using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install chef
Install chef Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install chef using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install chef
Install chef Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install chef using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install chef
How To Uninstall chef on Debian 10
To uninstall only the chef package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove chef
Uninstall chef And Its Dependencies
To uninstall chef and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove chef
Remove chef Configurations and Data
To remove chef configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge chef
Remove chef configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove chef configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chef
Dependencies
chef have the following dependencies:
- chef-zero
- lsb-base
- ohai
- ruby
- ruby-addressable
- ruby-bundler
- ruby-chef-config
- ruby-diff-lcs
- ruby-erubis
- ruby-ffi-yajl
- ruby-highline
- ruby-iniparse
- ruby-iso8601
- ruby-mixlib-archive
- ruby-mixlib-authentication
- ruby-mixlib-cli
- ruby-mixlib-log
- ruby-mixlib-shellout
- ruby-net-sftp
- ruby-net-ssh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chef package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.