Should Chef Server appear as node?

Question

In the process of creating and configuring my Chef infrastructure on my own servers, I noticed that my server appears as a node. My first question is: is this normal and correct?

For example, server-001 is my Chef Server. The rest are designed to manage nodes:

  $ knife node list
   server-001.example.com
   server-002.example.com
   server-003.example.com
   server-004.example.com
   server-005.example.com

This seems strange and perhaps wrong to me. My second question is if this is normal, why does Chef Server want to keep the link to itself as a node?

Question No. 3: if this is not true, any ideas on what I did to make this happen? (Some background: I followed the instructions for setting up the Chef server and then loaded other nodes. I did not create explicit nodes.)

Answer 1

What about this one? You probably want to manage the node, your chef works with the chef, right?
It saves the link to itself as a node, because launching the chef client on the computer on which the server is running is no different from running it from any other node.