Setting up Chef Infra server in Ubuntu 20.04 WSL2 in Windows 10/11

This blog explains how to configure chef infra server in WSL2 in Windows 10/11. 

Prerequisites:

• WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 installed

Let's get started,

• Go to https://www.chef.io/downloads/tools/infra-server/ and download the relevant infra server. 
• Copy downloaded .deb file to your work folder.
• Open WSL2 and run the following command to install the chef infra server on WSL2

sudo dpkg -i chef-server-core-<version>.deb

• Run the below command to start all the Chef services.

Resolve "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate" in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 distro

This blog explains how to fix the following error occurred when starting all the Chef services in Ubuntu 20.04 with WSL2 using "sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure" command.

"System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate"