A while ago, in conjunction to some work with Razor and the Chef Broker for Razor, I needed to setup a Chef Server (here). This has recently become much much simpler:
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install, the following will turn it into a Chef Server running Chef 11.
# Update the system
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libopenssl-ruby rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert vim screen openssh-server git curl unzip -y
# Install Chef Server
wget https://opscode-omnitruck-release.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chef-server_11.0.4-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i chef*.deb && sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure
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