Creating Chef-compatible images

To use images with Chef and the blueprint designer, you must create the images with certain prerequisites.

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Chef roles are supported only on RHEL version 7 images, and you cannot use Chef roles with all clouds.

For specific instructions for creating Chef-compatible images, see the following topics:

To create individual Chef-compatible images for OpenStack and OpenStack-based clouds, see Configuring OpenStack images. To create multiple Chef-compatible images for OpenStack and OpenStack-based clouds, see Using a dedicated environment to create Chef-compatible images on OpenStack-based clouds.
To create Chef-compatible images on SoftLayer, see Configuring SoftLayer images.
To create Chef-compatible images on VMware vCenter, see Configuring VMware vCenter images.

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