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Provision a Chef Server using http://manage.chef.io

For the command knife bootstrap <ip address> -V -i <pem file> --sudo -N <node-name> -r "recipe[lcookbook]"

When it comes to provisioning a Node, create and run an EC2 instance, then you need to allow root login as well as he ec2-user, to do this take these steps

```
sudo -s (to become root)
vi /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
```
Delete the lines at the begining of the file until you get to the words ssh-rsa.
```
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
```
Set the variable PermitRootLogin to PermitRootLogin without-password
service sshd restart
Now run knife bootstrap

For the command knife bootstrap <ip address> -V -x <user> -P <password> --sudo -N <node-name> -r "recipe[cookbook]"

Copy the QACHEFESS-setup-new-user.sh to the node and run it as sudo (update lines 4 - 8 with the user and password details as required)
Now run knife bootstrap

Code Block

language	bash
title	shell script
linenumbers	true

#!/bin/bash

# Add user 'chef', password 'chef'
useradd chef
echo chef | passwd chef --stdin

# Config sudo access. 
echo "chef    ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
sed -i 's/Defaults.*requiretty/#Defaults requiretty/g' /etc/sudoers

# Allow password access via ssh
sed -i 's/PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd restart

# Flush & Disable iptables
# Could not see iptables enabled by default on Centos 7. Need to confirm
iptables -F
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off

# Disable SELinux
setenforce 0
sed -i "s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disabled/g" /etc/selinux/config

# Set the MOTD
curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/7557/343581/8r8bE9vCpEW87E8/getawesome.txt > /etc/motd

# And we are done
echo '######## All Done! ######'

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