[chef] Re: Re: Silent installer for windows chef client

[Madhurranjan Mohaan < >]

Thanks Paul. I'll try out the bootstrap. I want to basically run and install a whole bunch of installers and configure them so that my builds can run on them. This includes things like .Net , IIS, SQL server and other items. My problem was that though the environment variable had the chef install path appended, it just wasn't reflecting till I went there manually and clicked them. I'll try  what you have recommended here , which is to hardcode the path variable separately and see if that works.

cheers

Madhurranjan

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Paul Morton - BIA < "> > wrote:

Greetings -

Currently we are not using the MSI (directly) to deploy chef. By and large we are using the knife bootstrap wine, command with the windows -chef-client-msi (Default Now) http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Knife+Windows+Bootstrap#KnifeWindowsBootstrap-windowschefclientmsi

The nice part about using the knife bootstrap command is that it takes care of doing all of the additional setup including transferring your validation cert and client configuration. Once you bootstrap the windows server with knife, chef-client should run fine.

WRT the windows cookbook, are there particualr things that you are trying to accomplish?

Paul 

 

On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Madhurranjan Mohaan wrote:

Hi,

I am using the .msi chef client across a few nodes right now .We will potentially be using this across 70 odd boxes . I am currently looking at trying out the resources specified here ->  https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/windows

Wanted to know what others are currently using for the same.

thanks

Madhurranjan