Create server on Debian 8 https://www.howtoforge.com/debian-squeeze-ldap-server-with-openldap-and-phpldapadmin CentOS 6 or 7 as client http://blog.zwiegnet.com/linux-server/configure-centos-7-ldap-client/ Configuring OpenLDAP as Backend for Samba PDC http://siddou.tk/2013/06/install-sambaopenldap-on-debian-7-wheezy/

Requirement: intel 64 bit installation of Ubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM Installation Steps: wget https://web-dl.packagecloud.io/chef/stable/packages/ubuntu/trusty/chef-server-core_12.0.8-1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i chef-server-core_*.deb sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure Configuration Steps: 1. sudo chef-server-ctl user-create username firstname