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.

sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure

Above command might fail with the error, "System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate"  . You can follow this blog to solve the failure.

• Once all the services are started, run following command to create administrator. provide username, first name, Last name, Email, password and .pem filename with the command.

sudo chef-server-ctl user-create USER_NAME FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME EMAIL 'PASSWORD' --filename FILE_NAME

Once command is successful, RSA private key will be generated and added value to the file name given. 

• Run following command to create Chef organization. Provide short name of organization, full organization name, user name and filename (ex: <<Organization short name>>-validator.pem)

sudo chef-server-ctl org-create short_name 'full_organization_name' --association_user user_name --filename ORGANIZATION-validator.pem

Once organization creation command run successfully, you would be able to find the .pem file in provided file path

• Go to https://localhost:443 to access the Chef Infra server.

Further, you can configure Chef management console to manage nodes, data bags, roles, environments and cookbook using web User Interface.