Chef workstation gives you everything you need to get started with chef infra and chef inspec ad hoc remote execution, remote scanning, configuration tasks. The actual command that is run by the default bootstrap script is. Getting started with opscode chef on windows, part 2. Setting up chef and vagrant on windows 7 under cygwin jul 15 2012. If you use git, you get started by cloning that repo. Install the chefclient on microsoft windows chef single. It could be a file, a directory, a registry key, a package msi or exe installer, a scheduled task, a windows service, an iis siteappapppool, a user account, etc. Wherever you are in your migration efforts for windows server 2008 r2, chef can help you get there faster and improve longterm manageability of the applications. If these values for any reason are not in the path environment variable, the chef client will not run properly. Everything you need to run chef comes in one easy package, putting you right on the track to automating your windows infrastructure.
Chef is a configuration management tool developed by opscode. The chefdk contains all the tools you need to develop and test your infrastructure, built by the awesome chef community. So the windows event youre seeing is a sideeffect of how the msi installer and chef work together. Getting started with opscode chef on windows, part 1. The packages may be downloaded directly as part of the installation process or they may first be downloaded to a local directory, and then installed from a local path. A configuration management tool is a software which configure systems programatically using some predefined set of configurations.
The chefclient can be installed on machines running microsoft windows in the following ways. This can be done either login to all the machines through. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments. On microsoft windows, chef infra client must have two entries added to the path environment variable. Automated install of sql server 2012 sp1 using chef. Its a major shift in how we do windows and has the promise of addressing many pain points that exist today for those who run windows server farms at scale. The chef effortless infrastructure suite offers visibility into security and compliance status across all infrastructure and makes it easy to detect and correct issues long before they reach production. Our supported versions page lists which product versions are governed by the new license. Installing and running a chef client on windows nano server. Opscode chef cookbook for tomcat7 i would like to contract a chef professional to customize the existing community tomcat cookbook for the apache tomcat 7 release. A microsoft installer package msi is available for installing chef infra client on a microsoft windows machine from. If these values for any reason are not in the path environment variable, the chefclient will not run properly. Chocolatey is software management automation for windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages.
This free program is an intellectual property of opscode, inc. Getting started with opscode chef on windows, part 1 by john bennett. Opscode chef server overview chef solo demo youtube. Chef infra client can be installed using this method. Chef has had a long history of support for microsoft windows as a platform, dating back to 2011 when opscode first released the knifewindows plugin to bootstrap and manage windows servers. Chef has a chef server, workstation and a chef client.
Chef workstation setup chef follows the concept of clientserver architecture, hence in order to start. A microsoft installer package msi is available for installing the chefclient on a microsoft windows machine. Some of the program aliases include opscode chef client installer for windows. Suppose if we want to update etchosts file on all our machines. Installing chef client on windows tech tips unconventional. Knife249 bootstrap windows returns 404 on chefclient. Opscode provides a git repo containing the basic file structure. Managed chef is chef hosted by opscode, sorry chef the company, relieving you of the necessity to setup your own server and host it yourself.
Later it can be uploaded to chef server to make them working on the chef nodes, which needs to be configured. Chef infra client will determine the correct package provider to use based on the platform running on the node name is the name of the package action identifies which steps chef infra client will take to bring the node into the desired state. By using the knife windows plugin to bootstrap the chefclient. Chef infra client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under. The windows cookbook includes custom chefspec matchers you can use to test your own cookbooks that consume windows cookbook lwrps.
I use centurylink vsphere provisioner to build out the server. Provides a set of useful windowsspecific primitives. Cookbooks are available for download from the opscode site. Chef infra client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by chef infra. Using chef allows us to add new servers confidently and quickly.
Installing and running a chef client on windows nano server march 20, 2016 by matt wrock ive been really excited about nano server ever since it was first talked about last year. But, one milestone that we have reached that may have slipped under your radar is the chef installer for windows. Open source chef server is not supported on windows. On microsoft windows, the chefclient must have two entries added to the path environment variable. Install the chefclient on microsoft windows chefclient 11. Im trying to bootstrap chef on windows 2008r2 machine which has cygwinssh installed so the bootstrap im trying is naturally via ssh.
Sadly, installing a standalone version chef solo on a windows box is not that simple, even if there are some instructions available. Enabling the coded enterprise through infrastructure. Opscode chef cookbook for tomcat7 linux script install. Make sure to change the ip and the hostname chefserv to reflect your values. Install the chefclient on microsoft windows chef singlepage topics. Spin up the windows cloud server we are bootstrapping later. You can use both builtin chef resources and a plethora of community cookbooks to manage internet information services iis, sql servers and their databases.
Using mixlibshellout and powershellout to execute windows tools and scripts as a domain user. A microsoft installer package msi is available for installing the chefclient on a. Install chef infra client on windows nodes chef documentation. A windows feature is an optional part of the operating system that you can download and includes things like iis. Installing chef client on windows toppertips unconventional. Opscode has a hosted version of chef server, which basically offers free configuration management up to 5 nodes. Chef supplied resources available to customers still running windows server 2008 r2 include. Additional information about our licenses can be found here. The windows cookbook provided by opscode the company behind chef provides a lot of great windows specific resources. This fully packaged chef is called the omnibus installer.
When chef infra client runs, it will bring the node into the expected state and prevent configuration drift. It is likely that you have already heard about windows support in chef, from early blog posts on the work to press releases. Linux machine, or fork out some money and use opscodes hosted enterprise chef. The paths on that page are specific to unix, but you should be able to adapt them to the appropriate places for your windows system. This is part of the windows cookbook from the community, so i decided to install that. Next we install and enable additional features of the chef server. A microsoft installer package msi is available for installing chef infra client on a microsoft windows machine from chef downloads. In order to get certain information about the application you wish to install or that is already installed we need unpackage the msi just enough to grab the product code and version. Chef infra is a configuration management tool designed to bring automation to your entire infrastructure.
Extended support for windows server 2008 r2 ended on january 14, 2020. Unable to bootstrap chef on windows stack overflow. A place for useful blog and posts about chef, inspec, and habitat. Knife259 knifewindows should use no ui flag for msiexec. Net frameworks and many other important components for.
Installing chef client on windows is sometime a challenge for developer. The chef repo contains cookbooks both those you download and those you create yourself. Recently i started using vagrant and chef which both come with native windows msis, except using these would require using the windows. Chef client will be installed in every node which is added to the chef server. The size of the latest setup package available is 67.
This is typically done during the installation of the chefclient automatically. Installing and running a chef client on windows nano. Opscode provides a fully packaged version, which does not have any external prerequisites. This is typically done during the installation of the chef client automatically. By using knife windows to bootstrap the chefclient. Using chef on windows is easier than you think postmark. At a previous job we were restricted to windows pcs only. Download and manually install the client using the msi installer. Install the chef client it is only available as an. After chef infra client is installed, it is located at c. I do admit it im a linux sysad with zero windows administration so i thought chef was gonna make it easier for me. The nodes ethernet dns entry was wrong, so it had no internet access and hence can not download the chefclient. Chef lets users create recipes for configuring and managing infrastructure in an automated and scalable manner, which has made it popular for a variety of complex use cases such as cloud computing and scaleout clusters. Before learning about what is chef, we should know what is a configuration management tool.
Chef workstation installs to optchef workstation on macos linux and c. This is typically done during the installation of chef infra client automatically. On microsoft windows, the chef client must have two entries added to the path environment variable. When the local file matches the checksum, chef infra client does not download it. Maybe you pull down the couchbase msi and try to run msiexec on that thing. For chef infra usage, please refer to our learn chef rally website, which includes modulebased training for chef infra, as well as automate, habitat, and inspec. The chefclient has specific components that are designed to support unique aspects of the microsoft windows platform, including windows powershell, internet information services. Tweet share post opscode has brought its cloudconfigurationmanagement technology, chef, to microsoft s msft windows environments. In order to install the chef client on windows, there are three basic options to be performed, as follows. Nordstrom has been using chef to automate windows environments. Installing chef solo on a windows server stack overflow. Setting up chef and vagrant on windows 7 under cygwin. Recent releases of our software distributions are under a new license.
Windows cookbook improvements, including printer lwrp diskpart cookbook. This made setting up certain development tools more annoying than it should be. Getting started with chef on windows server part 3. Today i decided to take a look at chef you know, this infrastructureascode stuff and see what it can do for me. Setting up open source chef server, workstation and. Use the knifewindows plugin to bootstrap the host as described previously.