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Documentation on how to bootstrap Chef Infra Client for each Cloud Provider

Currently, there are no Chef maintained examples of how to bootstrap the Chef Infra Client onto different cloud providers. It would be great to have Chef maintained documentation surrounding this as it's the primary starting point for the Chef Infra Client to be installed into a new system for most users.

For example, if we had an example of bootstrapping using Environments, Runlists, Policyfiles for:

Azure ARM Templates
GCP
AWS CloudFormation
IBM Cloud
Digital Ocean
Etc... 

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  • Sep 24 2019
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  • Joshua O'Brien commented
    30 Oct, 2019 07:57pm

    Request for Go To Market refresh for various cloud providers in bootstrapping Chef Infra Client. Good idea, as we have plenty of customers on several different providers. Moving to board as "Likely to Implement"

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