The Chef Development Kit (ChefDK) comes with development tools built by the Chef community. It makes the task of installing knife plugins easier.
Go to https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ and download the ChefDK for your platform. For our purposes, select Red Hat Enterprise Linux and select the version. Click on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Download button as it works on 64 bit (x86_64) versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6:
[root@localhost Desktop]# sudo rpm -ivh chefdk-0.13.21-1.el6.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:chefdk ########################################### [100%] Thank you for installing Chef Development Kit!
Once we have the ChefDK installed, we can use chef gem install knife-ec2
to create, bootstrap, and manage EC2 instances. It is available at
https://github.com/chef/knife-ec2
.
[root@localhost Desktop]# chef gem...