How to control the version of Chef that Vagrant uses to provision VMs?

February 25, 2023 by Tarik

Using the Vagrant plugin vagrant-omnibus worked great for me:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

You can then simply configure your chef version in the Vagrantfile before doing the provisioning:

config.omnibus.chef_version = :latest

You can also specify a specific version:

config.omnibus.chef_version = '11.6.0'