Chef 11 doesn't use Couchdb, though it uses those other dependencies. However, you do not go and install those dependencies. You install a single package that i

Chef 11 doesn't use Couchdb, though it uses those other dependencies. However, you do not go and install those dependencies. You install a single package that includes all of that. Chef client does not require RabbitMQ, Solr, or CouchDB. It too has an omnibus package that embeds all the dependencies and isolates it from the system. Both server and client are now one-line installs as well.