chef-install

A Github Action to install Chef on a build agent

Note you will need to accept the Chef license, you can find more information at https://docs.chef.io/chef_license.html

There is support for Macos, Linux and Windows with this action

Usage

Use the default settings to install chef-workstation from the stable channel

name: delivery

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  delivery:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main

Install inspec from the current channel

jobs:
  delivery:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: install chef
      uses: actionshub/chef-install@main
      with:
        channel: current
        project: inspec

Parameters

We support the following parameters

name	default	description
channel	stable	Chef Channel to install, stable or current
project	chef-workstation	Which product to install, see https://docs.chef.io/install_omnibus.html for the list
version	latest	version to install
omnitruckUrl	omnitruck.chef.io	which Omnitruck to use, default is Chef Official

By Changing the omnitruck Url you can also install Cinc projects