knife-bootstrap(1) on Linux
The text 575374c5dfb3, as Debian 8 (Jessie) shipped it.
The man page for the knife bootstrap subcommand. A bootstrap is a process that installs the chef-client on a target system so that it can run as a chef-client and communicate with a server. The knife bootstrap subcommand is used run a bootstrap operation that installs the chef-client on the target system. The bootstrap operation must specify the IP address or FQDN of the target system. Syntax This argument has the following syntax: Options This subcommand has the following options: The template file to be used during a bootstrap operation. The following distributions are supported: chef-full (the default bootstrap), centos5-gems, fedora13-gems, ubuntu10.04-gems, ubuntu10.04-apt, ubuntu12.04-gems, and the name of a custom bootstrap template file. When this option is used, Knife will search for the template file in the following order: the bootstrap/ folder in the current working directory, the bootstrap/ folder in the chef-repo, the bootstrap/ folder in the ~/.chef/ directory, or a default bootstrap file. Do not use the --template-file option when --distro is specified.