Hello world using Chef

Check if Chef Development Kit and Vim are installed:

which chef vim

Create hello.rb inside your home directory:

$ cat ~/hello.rb
file '/hello.txt' do
  content 'Hello, world!'
end

Run chef-client as root in local mode (-z is an alternative option):

sudo chef-client --local-mode hello.rb

Verify:

ls -la /hello.txt
cat /hello.txt