execute chef client

Execute Chef Client on machines in a Deployment Group

Settings

Setting	Group	Required	Default Value	Description
Display name		yes	Execute Chef Client (Chef)	Set the display name for this task
Log Level	Advanced	No	Info	Log level for chef-client

Information

This task will perform the equivalent of executing chef-client --once on the target machine. We recommend that this is performed via adding the task to a Deployment Group phase.

• On Windows, Chef Client will be executed from c:\opscode\bin\chef-client.bat
• On Linux, Chef Client will be executed from /usr/bin/chef-client

Installing the Chef VM Extension as part of an ARM template

See the topic: TBC: Using the Chef VM Extension with Visual Studio Team Services