Quick Start

For the quickest way to get started using Chef Infra:

Install Chef Workstation: https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/.
Generate a cookbook:
```
chef generate cookbook first_cookbook
```
where first_cookbook is an arbitrary cookbook name.
Navigate to the first_cookbook directory.
Update the cookbooks/first_cookbook/recipes/default.rb recipe in the generated cookbook to contain:
```
file "#{ENV['HOME']}/test.txt" do
  content 'This file was created by Chef Infra!'
end
```

Run Chef Infra Client using the default.rb recipe:

chef-client --local-mode --override-runlist first_cookbook

This will create a file named test.txt at the home path on your machine. Open that file and it will say This file was created by Chef Infra!.

Delete the file, run Chef Infra Client again, and Chef Infra will put the file back.
Change the string in the file, run Chef Infra Client again, and Chef Infra will make the string in the file the same as the string in the recipe.
Change the string in the recipe, run Chef Infra Client again, and Chef Infra will update that string to be the same as the one in the recipe.

There’s a lot more that Chef Infra can do, obviously, but that was super easy!

See https://learn.chef.io/ for more detailed setup scenarios.
Keep reading for more information about setting up a workstation, configuring Test Kitchen to run virtual environments, setting up a more detailed cookbook, resources, and more.