Resolving New Chef Licensing Warnings During Bootstrap

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.

Resolve Chef Kitchen Verify Error "Cannot converge without accepting the Chef Infra Client License"

You might have experienced, Azure pipeline failing from kitchen verify step due to Chef Infra client License not accepted error while  creating a Chef test kitchen in Azure. Let's look at how to fix this issue in this post.