Managing your local workstation

You know the drill. You get a brand new MacBook and need to set up all your software—again. Chef can help here, too.

We will take a look at how to install applications and tweak settings on your local development box with Chef.

Tip

This example is based on recipes for OS X only, but you can tweak it to run on Windows or Linux, too.

Getting ready

First, we need to prepare our own repository for our individual setup:

1. Fork the github.com/mmarschall/kitchenplan-config repository:

   

2. Clone it to your local development box, replacing <YOUR GITHUB USER> with the name of your GitHub account:

   mma@laptop:~/ $ git clone https://github.com/<YOUR GITHUB USER>/kitche
   nplan-config.git
   

3. Go into your clone of the kitchenplan-config repository:

   mma@laptop:~/ $ cd kitchenplan-config
   

4. Make sure you have the kitchenplan gem installed by running the following code:

   mma@laptop:~/kitchenplan-config $ gem install kitchenplan
   

   ...TRUNCATED OUTPUT...
   Installing kitchenplan (2.1.18)
   ...