The Chef-Client agent runs Chef recipes on both physical and virtual servers, often called nodes or instances. Associating nodes with the Chef ensures the chef server installs the chef-client software on the nodes.

Note: The minimum supported version of chef-client on nodes associated with OpsWorks for ChefAutomate Server is 12.16.42. We recommend running chef-client 13.6.4.

Chef – Node Bootstrapping

Using a knife to add or bootstrap an instance (See https://docs.chef.io/platforms.html for supported operating systems)

Example 1: Bootstrapping an instance using knife commands.

knife bootstrap windows winrm EnterNodeIPAddress --winrm-user Administrator --winrm-password 'enterserverpasswordhere' --node-name EnterNodeNamehere --run-list 'recipe[chef-client]'

Note: You can attach any cookbooks in place of the chef-client run-list or have a role uploaded to the chef server, which in turn has many run-lists attached to the role, and update the node run-list to use the newly created role. This topic will be discussed in a later stage(Chef – Node Bootstrapping).

Also see if you wish to add nodes automatically https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/opscm-unattend-assoc.html