[chef] Re: Bootstrap windows server with knife ec2 server create?

[Chirag Jog < >]

I missed mentioning this. The windows template file has to be explicitly supplied via the --template-file param. 

Regards,

Chirag Jog

Chief Technology Officer, 

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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Chirag Jog < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Jeppe,

The windows template is present in the knife-windows gem which also gets installed now. Check /User/jeppe/....../gems/knife-windows/.../

Alternately it is available here also : https://github.com/opscode/knife-windows/blob/master/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap/windows-chef-client-msi.erb

The README should mention this though. I file a doc bug for it.

Regards,

Chirag Jog

Chief Technology Officer, 

Clogeny Technologies | http://clogeny.com 

(M) 0091-9766619440 | Skype: chirag.jog

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Ohai,

I'm currently using a homegrown script to launch & bootstrap an EC2 windows server (using a combo of knife-ec2 & knife-windows)

It seems the latest (unreleased?) knife-ec2 plugin does support windows images, but I can't seem to figure out which template to use. It fails with

Bootstrapping Chef on ec2-54-228-110-177.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
Can not find bootstrap definition for
ERROR: Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory

looking in the bootstrap directory, I only see

$ ls /Users/jeppe/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.4.4/lib/chef/knife/bootstrap
archlinux-gems.erb   centos5-gems.erb     chef-full.erb        fedora13-gems.erb    ubuntu10.04-apt.erb  ubuntu10.04-gems.erb ubuntu12.04-gems.erb

and no windows template?

What are the incarnations needed to boot windows?

/Jeppe