Tiered Installation (DEPRECATED)

Tiered Installation (DEPRECATED)

Warning

This topic is deprecated as of the 12.9 release of the Chef servver. For the latest information on high availability and how to set up a highly-available server cluster, see High Availability: Backend Cluster .

This topic describes how to set up the Chef server with a single back end and multiple load-balanced frontend servers.

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Prerequisites

Before installing the Chef server software, perform the following steps:

  • The backend server must be accessible from each frontend server. A virtual IP address is created and managed by the Chef server, but will also need to be added to the DNS so that