Chef Infra Client system requirements

This page documents system requirements for bootstrapping Chef Infra Client on a node.

Prerequisites

Before you bootstrap Chef Infra Client on nodes:

1. Install and configure Chef Infra Server
2. Install and configure Chef Workstation on your local computer

Chef Infra Client requirements

Chef Infra Client requires the following system resources and disk space.

Memory

• We recommend at least 512 MB of available RAM during a Chef Infra Client run.

Installation disk space

• On Linux, Chef Infra Client installs binaries in /opt/chef and requires at least 200 MB of available disk space.
• On Windows, Chef Infra Client installs binaries in C:\opscode\ and requires at least 600 MB of available disk space.

Processor

• See the supported platforms and processors documentation.
• We recommend a processor speed of 1 GHz or faster, although actual requirements depend on system workload and the resources available to Chef Infra Client.

Cache storage

During a run, Chef Infra Client stores downloaded cookbooks, packages, and other temporary files in the cache directory:

• Linux: /var/chef/cache
• Windows: Configured by the file_cache_path setting

Ensure that the cache directory has sufficient free space for downloaded content and temporary files. We recommend starting with 5 GB of available disk space and increasing it as needed for your environment.

You can change the cache directory location by configuring the file_cache_path setting in client.rb.