This might be a stupid question. I don't know a lot about chef. I am using chef 11.8.2 on a node. I have a weird problem which might be caused by the chef client caching things rather than downloading from the chef server. Does chef do this? Cache things locally? If so, is it possible to clear the local cache on a chef node before running chef-client so that I can be sure that my problem isn't from caching?
If you're running on linux, you should be able to find it at
/var/chef/cache.It stores the pid file there by default as well.
While you noticed in the other question that this wasn't a cache issue on the node (rather that the Chef Server's view of node data is only a snapshot), Chef does have some cache data on each node. Mostly this is just cookbook file data since we have to download it before execution.