https://github.com/pwelch/chef-windows-programs

Chef cookbook to install a list of programs to make Windows useful.
https://github.com/pwelch/chef-windows-programs

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Chef cookbook to install a list of programs to make Windows useful.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pwelch/chef-windows-programs
• Owner: pwelch
• Created: 2012-04-08T04:56:50.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-04-26T14:44:03.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-09T16:42:18.501Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage:
• Size: 105 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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Description

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Installs a list of programs to make Windows useful.

Requirements

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Platform

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* Windows XP

* Windows Vista

* Windows Server 2003 R2

* Windows 7

* Windows Server 2008 (R1, R2)

 

Cookbooks

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* [windows](https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/windows)

Attributes

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Set `url, checksum, package_name and home` attributes for each program to be installed.

Add program to array in recipes/default.rb. 

Usage

=====

Download and install [Opscode Chef Full Installer for Windows](http://opscode.com/chef/install.msi).

Download and install [Git Full Installer](http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.7.8-preview20111206.exe)

create `c:\chef\cookbooks>` and add cookbook to directory

create `c:\chef\node.json`

  

    {

      "run_list": [

      "recipe[windows]",

      "recipe[chef-windows-programs]"

      ]

    }

create `c:\chef\solo.rb`

  

    log_level		:info

    log_location	STDOUT

    file_cache_path	"c:/chef/chef-cache"

    cookbook_path	"c:/chef/cookbooks"

	

execute chef-solo

`c:\>chef-solo -c c:/chef/solo.rb -j c:/chef/node.json`