This is no longer needed if you choose to use an up to date 64bit Raspberry Pi OS. 64 bit arm is available for Chef so you can do a standard bootstrap it should work without anything fancy.

Chef doesn't offer a omnibus chef-client for raspberry pi yet. Any minute now.

This knife bootstrap script helps get around that by either building a chef omnibus from scratch or using a pre-build deb package using my chef_omnibus_build tool.

The raspbian_bootstrap.erb uses an OPT environent variable to provide provides different options to get ruby and chef.

• OPT=prebuilt Installs prebuild .deb package
  • Fast: Fast - uses my latest prebuilt chef
  • CHEF_URL=http://your_url_to/your_package.deb - specify your own prebuilt chef package.
• OPT=build chef_omnibus_builder to build a ruby, omnibus-toolchain, and then a chef package.
  • Slow: Takes many hours.
  • Note: Creates an omnibus user with a locked password for the build process.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/dayne/raspbian_bootstrap
cd raspbian_bootstrap

Bootstrap the pi:

knife bootstrap -t raspbian_bootstrap.erb \
      --ssh-user pi --sudo PI_ADDRESS

Full build process by using OPT:

OPT=build knife bootstrap -t raspbian_bootstrap.erb \
          --ssh-user pi --sudo PI_ADDRESS

• Chef installed
• pi's clock will be synchronized using ntpd (network time protocol daemon).
• chef package installed with chef tools in /opt/chef

• @tinoschroeter : Tino Schröter as original author
• @dayne : dayne updated and evolved to support Chef 12
• @in-bto : ino-bto for trusted certs forwarding to client node
• @Edubits: Edubits updated to Jessie
• @trinitronx: trinitronx Merged support for both Wheezy and Jessie
• @marcusbooyah: marcusbooyah Tested and fixed bugs in OPT=stretch