Setup Chef Server

View Ubuntu version details - cat /etc/lsb-release

chef-solo -v
Install chef - curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

check version - chef-solo -v

make configuration file 

cd /etc/

sudo mkdir chef

In etc/chef create file solo.rb

sudo vi solo.rb

repo = '/etc/chef/src'

cookbook_path repo + '/cookbooks'

data_bag_path repo + '/data_bags'

role_path repo + '/roles'

log_level :info

log_location STDOUT

Press esc to go to normal mode and :x or :wq to save and exit

sudo mkdir src

go to src

cd src

cat ../solo.rb

sudo mkdir cookbooks data_bags roles

cookbooks - contain bunch of recipes

within cookbooks create directory called common and go inside it

create recipes directory and create sudo vi default.rb

directory '/root' do

 user 'root'

 group 'root'

 mode '0700'

end

Save and exit

Create run list to run the default recipes with command - sudo chef-solo -o 'recipe[common]'

change the mode - sudo chmod 0770 /root

Again run the default recipes with command - sudo chef-solo -o 'recipe[common]'