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

Supported platforms

See the Chef Infra Client supported platforms documentation.

Chef Infra Client requirements

Memory

Chef Infra Client requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM during a client run.

Installation disk space

• Linux: Chef Infra Client stores its binaries in /hab, which requires a minimum of 600 MB of disk space.
• Windows: Chef Infra Client stores its binaries in C:\hab, which requires a minimum of 2.1 GB of disk space.

Processor

Chef Infra Client requires a supported processor. We recommend 1 GHz or faster, but base the processor speed on other system loads.

Cache storage

Chef Infra Client caches downloaded cookbooks, packages, and other large files to /var/chef/cache during a client run. Size this directory generously. Start with 5 GB and tune the size of /var/chef/cache as necessary. You can configure this location in a node’s client.rb file using the file_cache_path setting.