[SOLVED] Using knife commands anywhere in terminal and without "bundle exec"

Using knife commands anywhere in terminal and without "bundle exec"

I recently moved to Catalina on a formatted drive. In the past I was able to run knife from any directory on my terminal.

At the moment, it only runs from the chef repo it was installed in and it only runs when I prefix it with bundle exec

Can't find any documentation on the matter and I'm not super-savvy with terminal/bash/zsh nuances - any tips would be much appreciated

Solution

i will advise you to keep using bundler if you care of running multiple version of chef-client, so you can update chef-client from time to time and keep things work smoothly.

you can specify the chef-client version in the Gemfile in your project such as

group :default do
  gem 'chef', '15.8.23'
end

you can make chef-client more streamed lined by providing chef-client a json attribute file (specifying cookbooks attribute, etc) and a client configuration (specifying chef-client settings, such as a cookbook directory, etc.) and store them in the project repository.

otherwise, you can install chef workstation which bundles chef-client (chef infra client) or only chef infra client (make sure the desired version you need).

see the macos installtion or use brew to tap to homebrew-chef

brew cask install chef/chef/chef-workstation

or only chef infra client

brew cask install chef/chef/chef-infra-client