The Chef-Client agent runs Chef recipes on both physical and virtual servers often referred to as nodes or instances. Associating nodes with 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.
Using 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 turns have many run-list attached to the role and update the node run-list to use the newly created role. This topic will be discussed in a latter stage.
Also see if you wish to add nodes automatically https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/opscm-unattend-assoc.html