System requirements

Before you bootstrap Chef Infra Client on nodes:

1. Install and configure Chef Infra Server
2. Install and configure Chef Workstation on your local computer

Supported platforms

Chef Infra Client is supported on:

• Currently supported Linux distributions and versions running Linux kernel 2.6.32 and later
• Currently supported Windows versions greater than or equal to Windows 10

Chef Infra Client requirements

• RAM: Chef Infra Client requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM during a client run.
• Disk space for binaries:
  • Linux: The Chef Infra Client binaries are stored in /hab and require a minimum of 600 MB of disk space.
  • Windows: The Chef Infra Client binaries are stored in C:\hab and require a minimum of 2.1 GB of disk space.
• Processor: The processor must be supported. We recommend 1 GHz or faster, but the processor speed should be based on other system loads.
• Cache directory: Chef Infra Client caches downloaded cookbooks, packages, and other large files to /var/chef/cache during a client run. This directory should be generously sized. Start with 5 GB and tune the size of /var/chef/cache as necessary. You can configure this location in a node’s client.rb file using the file_cache_path setting.