You can watch a video of this demo here: http://blog.markshead.com/1173/chef-solo-demo-video/

• Install Git

  sudo yum install git

  Git will be used to download the cookbooks and updates to the configuration.

• Check out this repo to the /var/chef directory

  sudo git clone https://github.com/markshead/chef-solo-demo.git /var/chef

  This command will pull down the repository from GitHub and put it where chef can find it.

• Install Chef with:

  sudo true && curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

  This command runs Opscodes Omnibus installer.

• Run Chef:

  sudo chef-solo -j /var/chef/dna.json

  And finally this the command that runs chef. dna.json simply lists the recipes we want to install on this machine.