Add Nodes for the Chef Server to Manage - AWS OpsWorks

Add Nodes for the Chef Server to Manage

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AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate reached end of life on May 5, 2024 and has been disabled for both new and existing customers. We recommend that existing customers migrate to Chef SaaS or an alternative solution. If you have questions, you can reach out to the AWS Support Team on AWS re:Post or through AWS Premium Support.

The chef-client agent runs Chef recipes on physical or virtual computers, called nodes, that are associated with the server. You can connect on-premises computers or instances to the Chef server to manage, provided the nodes are running supported operating systems. Registering nodes with the Chef server installs the chef-client agent software on those nodes.

You can use the following methods to add nodes:

  • Add notes individually by running a knife command that adds, or bootstraps, an EC2 instance so that the Chef server can manage it. For more information see Add nodes individually.

  • Add nodes automatically by using a script to perform unattended association of nodes with the Chef server. The code in the Starter Kit shows how to add nodes automatically using the unattended method. For more information see, Add nodes automatically in AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate.

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