Another frequently used command that is easy to forget where the documentation isn’t current.

knife bootstrap <server> -U <username> -P <password> --sudo

As of 2022-01-08, we need to make another update. We must now specify as node name. Who knows why it can’t be inferred. We must also explicitly tell Chef to reuse the password to elevate privileges, which it could also infer.

knife bootstrap <server> -U <username> -N <node> --sudo -P <password> --use-sudo-password