At the February Seattle Chef Meetup, I gave a presentation about the current state of Habitat on Windows. I showed the beginnings of a Habitat toolset with build plans that specifically target Windows applications. These plans include PowerShell Core, Visual Studio Build Tools, 7-Zip, WIX, .Net Core and Visual C++ redistributable binaries. You can watch a […]
Read MoreAuthor: Matt Wrock
I am a software developer for Chef and much of my focus has been making Chef better on Windows. When not developing Chef code, I'm usually contributing to other projects in the Chef ecosystem. I regularly contribute to the WinRM gem and Vagrant, I am a member of the core Chocolatey team, author of Boxstarter and was an early contributor to Pester creating its Powershell Mocking functionality. I am a former Microsoft engineer and write regularly on Windows automation topics at hurryupandwait.io
Running Chef in the background on Windows
One of the most common sets of questions we hear regarding running Chef on Windows surrounds how to run Chef continuously as a background process. There are two primary methods to do this on Windows: Windows Service Manager Windows Task Scheduler Either can get the job done and both are supported and will continue to […]
Read MoreHabitat application portability and understanding dynamic linking of ELF binaries
This post was originally published on the Hurry Up and Wait! blog on December 30, 2017. I do not come from a classical computer science background and have spent the vast majority of my career working with Java, C# and Ruby – mostly on Windows. So I have managed to evade the details of exactly how […]
Read MoreCreating a Docker container Host on Windows Nano Server with Chef
This post was originally published by Matt Wrock on his blog, “Hurry Up and Wait: Tales from an automation engineer.” This week Microsoft launched the release of Windows Server 2016 along with its ultra light headless deployment option – Nano Server. The Nano server images are many times smaller than what we have come to expect from a Windows […]
Read MoreChefDK 0.12.0 Released
We are happy to announce a new ChefDK, version 0.12.0, has landed in the stable channel and is available for download on the Get Chef downloads site. There has not been much in the way of updates to the DK itself, but there have been updates to several of the dependent packages we bundle. Here […]
Read MoreChef Client 12.8.1 Release
We just released Chef Client version 12.8.1 to the chef [downloads site](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-client/). Highlights of this release include: ## Support for OpenSSL validation of FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) is a United States government computer security standard that specifies security requirements for cryptography. The current version of the standard is FIPS 140-2. The chef-client can […]
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