Food Fight

The Podcast where DevOps chefs do battle

Windows Automation for Frustrated Sysadmins

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Upcoming Events

Chef Week London - Intermediate Training with Mandi Walls, Chef Community Summit London, and a Chef Hack Day. October 13-17, 2014. Use code CHEFWEEK to save!

  • Chef Users London Meetup - October 9
  • Chef Community Summit London - October 15 & 16 - FOODFIGHT saves 10%, CHEFWEEK saves more ;)
  • Erlang Camp - October 10 & 11 in Austin, Texas
  • Silicon Valley Code Camp - October 11 in Los Altos Hills, California
  • Houston Texas DevOps – October 14 - JJ Asghar will be presenting “Infrastructur­e as Code”
  • Docker Santa Clara Meetup - October 15 - Tom Duffield will be presenting “Managing Docker Containers”
  • CloudDevelop - October 17 in Columbus, Ohio - Julian Dunn will be presenting “Automating That Other OS: Cooking With Chef on Windows”
  • London Hack Day - October 17
  • All Things Open - October 22-23 in Raleigh, North Carolina - Nathen Harvey will present “Introduction to Infrastructure as Code & Automation / Introduction to Chef”
  • Rakuten Technology Conference - October 25 in Japan - Michael Ducy will be talking about Changing the Behavior of IT.
  • T-DOSE - October 25 & 26 in The Netherlands
  • IC3 - October 27-28 in San Francisco - George Miranda and a few other Chefs will be around. George will be presenting “Successful Patterns of DevOps – Your To-Do List”
  • QCon San Francisco - November 3-7 in San Francisco - Franklin Webber will be leading an Intro to Chef tutorial on the 7th.

  • LISA - LISA returns to Seattle (November 9-14) this year. Be sure to swing by and check out talks and tutorials from Jennifer Davis, Steven Murawski, Mandi Walls, Nathen Harvey, and more!

  • DevOpsDays

Upcoming Chef Training

Use discount code FOODFIGHT to save 10% off upcoming Chef training that’s being held in

There are also a number of classes being offered online.

Show Notes

  • API-driven, not document- or configuration file-driven
  • Use Powershell to drive the API
  • Common Engineering Criteria
    • All management functionality must be exposed to Powershell
  • Server 2012 has 2400+ Powershell commands covering Windows administration and functionality
  • Powershell
  • Command line parsing, pipeline semantics, debugging, etc.
  • Powershell equalivent of apt-get
    • chocolatey - choco install emacs … choco install vim
      • uses NuGet packages
    • OneGet is Microsoft’s unified interface to package management systems - available in Poweshell 5
    • PsGet
  • PSReadline
  • Pester - Powershell BDD style testing framework
  • Text Editors
    • NOT notepad
    • Powershell ISE - if nothing else is there
    • Sublime Text
    • Atom
    • emacs, of course
  • Basic resources that Chef users should know about
    • Package-Service-Template paradigm doesn’t really work for Windows
    • Powershell and DSC
    • PowerShellDSC converts the document-oriented calls of Chef to API-oriented calls of Windows
    • test target resource, set target resource, get target resource
    • Identifying which registry keys have changed is painful
    • Inspect MSIs with Orca.aspx)
    • Windows Cookbook
  • Debugging Powershell is painful
    • Windows Management Framework 5 - might go back as far as 2008 R2.
    • Powershell 5 has many updates and enhancements for debugging
  • Test Kitchen at ChefSummit
  • Escaping from Powershell and using command.exe escaping - knife winrm --% ....
  • Adam Edwards, PowerChef - Enhanced PowerShell Integration for Chef Recipes from #ChefConf 2014
  • royalTSX
  • WinRS
  • WinRM

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The Food Fight Show is brought to you by Bryan Berry and Nathen Harvey with help from other hosts and the awesome community of Chefs.

The show is sponsored, in part, by Chef.

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