Chef Cookbooks For Windows

The windows cookbook provided by opscode the company behind chef provides a lot of great windows specific resources. When the cookbook attributes take precedence over the default attributes the chef client will apply those new settings and values during the chef client run on the node.

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This weeks post has demonstrated how to setup and configure a chef recipe and cookbook on windows server 2012 r2 and then apply it to the host.

Chef cookbooks for windows. This resource is now included in chef 147 and laterthere is no need to depend on the windows cookbook for this resource. Installs a certificate into the windows certificate store from a file and grants read only access to the private key for designated accounts. Pprovides a set of useful windows specific primitivesp h1 idwindows cookbook changelogwindows cookbook changelogh1 pthis file is used to list changes.

Installing windows features. Click the chef client tab. Instructions on how to create a blank chef cookbook.

This also covers configuring test kitchen for a windows 10 vm. For example the resource windowsfeature allows you to install any software that can support or improve the functionality of the server in an idempotent way without. However if you want to run a single recipe you use the chef apply command.

A windows feature is an optional part of the operating system that you can download and includes things like iis. In previous guides we discussed chef terminology how to install a chef server workstation and node with chef 12 or chef 11 and how to create simple cookbooks to manage configuration. When you want to run a cookbook as we have in this example you use the chef client command.

In this guide we will continue to explore how you can manage your environment with chef. Under downloads select the version of the chef client to download and then click the link that appears below to download the package. Select windows a version and an architecture.

Im working on a project that is using chef a tool for automating server configuration. Chef is an awesome way to automate creation and maintenance of machines and environments. One downside of chef for me is that windows tends to be an afterthought.

The one i find the most useful is windowsfeature. The windows cookbook is a community cookbook available in the chef supermarket that helps all chef users create windows based cookbooks easily. Recipes a recipe is the most fundamental configuration element within the organization.

To install the chef client on microsoft windows do the following. Getting started with opscode chef on windows part 1.

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