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Webinar:Cooking with Chef on Microsoft WindowsJulian C. Dunn
Senior Consultant, Opscode, Inc.
Introduction to Opscode and Chef
What is Chef?
Recipes and Cookbooks that describe and deliver code.
Chef enables people to easily build & manage complex & dynamic applications at massive scale.
•New model for describing infrastructure that promotes reuse
•Programmatically provision and configure
•Reconstruct business from code repository, data backup, and bare metal resources
Chef is an IT automation platform for developers & systems engineers to continuously define, build, and manage infrastructure.
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Chef and Windows Support Milestones
•May 2011 – Knife plugin for Windows announced
•Oct 2011 – PowerShell, IIS, SQL Server, and Windows cookbooks
•Dec 2011 – Chef Client Installer MSI for Microsoft Windows
•Feb 2012 – Integration of the registry_key resource into core Chef from the Windows cookbook
•Aug 2013 – Chef 11.6.0 release. PowerShell and Batch scripting integrated into core Chef. Chef Client released as Windows service
•Aug 2013 - PowerShell Desired State Configuration support announced (for delivery later in 2013)
Notable Chef Customers on Windows
Automating a .NET App on Windows
Automating a .NET App on Windows
• The app: nopCommerce Shopping Cart solution (www.nopcommerce.com)
• ASP.NET with SQL Server backend
• Available through WebPI
• WebPI install assumes a lot, however
• Full-featured app suitable to show off Chef resources on Windows
Resources Automated in this Demo
• Installing Windows Features and Roles
• IIS app pool
• IIS site
• IIS app
• Registry settings
• Deploying files onto the system
• Unzipping files
• Windows filesystem rights management
Provisioning with Chef
• Beta of the Azure plugin for Chef
• Request new VM from Azure API
• Bootstrap it over WinRM
• Install and start Chef
• Register with Chef server
• Run through the “run list”
• Instant infrastructure with one command
Video
The Recipe Code
nopCommerce Recipe Code: Install IIS, ASP.NET 4.5
nopCommerce Recipe Code: Install nopCommerce
nopCommerce Recipe Code: Set up IIS Site, App Pool, App
Other Recipe Code You Might Have Noticed
cookbook_file 'C:\Windows\System32\oemlogo.bmp' do source node['windowshacks']['oeminfo']['logofile'] rights :read, "Everyone" action :createend
registry_key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OEMInformation' do values [{:name => 'Logo', :type => :string, :data => 'C:\Windows\System32\oemlogo.bmp'}, {:name => 'Manufacturer', :type => :string, :data => node['windowshacks']['oeminfo']['manufacturer']}, {:name => 'SupportHours', :type => :string, :data => node['windowshacks']['oeminfo']['supporthours']}, {:name => 'SupportPhone', :type => :string, :data => node['windowshacks']['oeminfo']['supportphone']}, {:name => 'SupportURL', :type => :string, :data => node['windowshacks']['oeminfo']['supporturl']}] action :createend
The Result
Overview of Chef Resources on Windows
Chef Resources on Windows: Same as UNIX/Linux
• file, remote_file, cookbook_file, template
• directory, remote_directory
• user, group
• mount (can take CIFS paths)
• env
• service
• execute
• ruby_block
• many others...Photo Credit: L. Allen Brewer
Windows-Only Resources
• registry_key (new in Chef 11.0.0)
• powershell_script (new in Chef 11.6.0)
• batch (new in Chef 11.6.0)
• Automatic architecture handling (:i386 vs. :x86_64)
• Automatic Windows filesystem redirector handling (Wow64)
• Long-term roadmap: move more resources to core and out of ‘windows’ cookbook
Windows-Only Cookbooks
• By Opscode:
• 7-zip
• iis
• powershell
• sql_server
• webpi
• windows
• wix
• Many others in the community
• couchbase
• ms_dotnet45
• (to name but a few) Photo Credit: Marc Falardeau
registry_key example
# Set system’s proxy settings to be the same as used for Chef
proxy = URI.parse(Chef::Config[:http_proxy])
registry_key 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings' do
values [{:name => 'ProxyEnable', :type => :reg_dword, :data => 1},
{:name => 'ProxyServer', :data => "#{proxy.host}:#{proxy.port}"},
{:name => 'ProxyOverride', :type => :reg_string, :data => '<local>'}]
action :create
end
powershell_script example
powershell_script "rename hostname" do
code <<-EOH
$computer_name = Get-Content env:computername
$new_name = 'test-hostname'
$sysInfo = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem
$sysInfo.Rename($new_name)
EOH
end
Registry Idempotency Helpers
• Resources like powershell_script are not idempotent by default
• We provide some helpers for checking the registry:
• registry_data_exists?
• registry_get_subkeys
• registry_get_values
• registry_has_subkeys?
• registry_key_exists?
• registry_value_exists?
Special File and Directory Permissions Handling on Windows
• Parameters that don’t make sense are ignored
• DOMAIN\user, DOMAIN\group work
• Filesystem ACLs are different on Windows
• mode parameter semantics
• rights parameter only for Windows
The “windows” cookbook
• The windows cookbook includes a number of resources and providers, and helper libraries.
• See https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/windows for a full list
• Highlights:
• windows_auto_run
• windows_feature
• windows_package
• windows_path
• windows_reboot
• windows_zipfile
• Other: windows_printer, windows_printer_port, windows_task
Photo Credit: peyri
Helper Functions in Windows Cookbook
• Libraries (include Windows::Helper):
• win_friendly_path - ensures backslashes are used everywhere
• win_version:
• server_core? server_full? server_datacenter?
• windows_7? windows_server_2008_r2? etc.
Photo Credit: ilovecocacola
Windows Report Handlers
• Windows cookbook:
• WindowsRebootHandler
• windows_reboot resource
• windows::reboot_handler recipe
• Eventlog cookbook:
• Send Chef output to Windows Event Log
Photo Credit: blakespot
Wrap Up / Q&A
Wrap-Up and Q&A
• Much more than what’s shown here!
• Blog posts and other webinars to come
• Questions?
Thank you!
W: www.opscode.com/blog
T: @julian_dunn
G: github.com/juliandunn