Installing Chef client in less than a minute

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Open a terminal

Enter command as in the screenshot below, you will use the command as below and on the right get an acknowledgement



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

now after this we can confirm that the chef has been installed by looking at version by using the below command. 






chef-client -v





and also the folder structure 











































































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