Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a well-known concept used to manage larger amounts of infrastructure. Chef is one of the tools commonly used to implement this approach.
Recently, Chef has changed its licensing model and downloading and using Chef software now requires a valid license. As a result, you may see licensing warnings when bootstrapping new nodes using the knife bootstrap command.
In this blog post, we’ll discuss what needs to be done to get rid of the licensing warning that appears during the knife bootstrap process and how to provide a valid Chef license when installing Chef Infra Client on a new server.
