This document discusses using Chef to automate configuration management on Windows servers. It provides an overview of Chef and how it works, including the main components of nodes, roles, and cookbooks. It then outlines the basic steps to set up Chef including installing the Chef server, uploading cookbooks, and preparing Windows servers to work with Chef using WinRM or SSH. Finally, an example deployment of a Node.js application using Chef on Windows is described.

1. slideshare.net/matschaffer/chef-loves-windows
Chef Loves Windows
Mat Schaffer, ALT.NET – Nov, 2011

2. Our agenda
• Me
• You
• Old cars and automation
• How chef works
• Setting up Chef
• An Example deployment (Node.js)

3. Mat Schaffer
github.com/matschaffer
@matschaffer

4. (for hire)

5. • Linux System Administration
• Ruby on Rails
• Chef
• Chef on Win2k3 via Cygwin

6. You

7. Your CM

8. Expensive ($2k-$3k)
Hand made
12.5 hours

9. $850
Heavily Automated
1.5 hours

10. 250 early car companies failed by 1930*
“Most tech companies are essentially American auto
companies pre-Ford.”
- Trotter Cashion

11. Chef

12. (Chef server)
$ chef-server
$ chef-client
my_cookbook
my_cookbook
my_cookbook
$ chef-client
my_cookbook
├── README.rdoc
├── attributes
├── definitions
├── files
│ └── default
├── libraries
├── metadata.rb
├── providers
├── recipes
│ └── default.rb
├── resources
└── templates
└── default
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13. node
role
cookbook

14. Step 1: Get a Chef server

15. http://manage.opscode.com

16. http://devops.mashion.net/chef-install

17. Step 2: Get some
cookbooks

18. Cookbooks?

20. http://community.opscode.com

21. github.com/matschaffer/
chef-loves-windows
Thanks to
Doug MacEachern (VMware)
&
Seth Chisamore (OpsCode)

22. git clone
https://github.com/matschaffer/chef-loves-windows.git
cd chef-loves-windows
### configure knife
knife cookbook upload -a
for ROLE in roles/*.rb; do
knife role from file $ROLE;
done

23. Step 3: Prepare a server

24. WinRM
REM Configure it
winrm quickconfig -q
REM A chef run uses some memory, let it.
winrm set winrm/config/winrs @{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="300"}
REM A chef run also takes some time, let it.
winrm set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}
REM For dev/testing allow unencrypted basic auth
winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{Basic="true"}

25. Or SSH
WinSSHD
Cygwin
FreeSSHd

26. github.com/opscode/knife-windows
gem install knife-windows
knife bootstrap windows winrm $HOST -r “role[$ROLE]”
-x Administrator -P $PASSWORD
knife winrm -m $HOST -x Administrator -P $PASSWORD
‘chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb’
knife bootstrap windows ssh $HOST -r “role[$ROLE]”
-x Administrator -i $KEY
knife ssh -m $HOST -x Administrator -i $KEY
‘chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb’

27. C:> w32tm /resync
$ ntpdate pool.ntp.org

28. 42!

30. Wrap-UP
• Automation can save your business
• CM is a key part of your stack
• Opscode.com and EC2 is all you need
• Yes, it works on windows

31. github.com/matschaffer
@matschaffer
Thank you
questions?