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

[AJ Christensen < >]

Wow derp, right, Windows. No idea. sorry :(

--AJ

On 16 May 2013 21:14, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen 
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 wrote:
> Thanks for the quick feedback. A few comments:
>
>
> @AJ, the chef-full template (unless some magic happens somewhere :-) seems
> to be a bash script and is not found.
>
> Specifying the full path to the windows-chef-client.msi.erb works, thanks.
> This is not very intuitive though!
>
> Now the instance launches and bootstrapping is starting, but fails with an
> error
>
> ec2-54-216-82-224.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com CScript Error: Execution
> of the Windows Script Host failed. (0x800A0007)
> ec2-54-216-82-224.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com Warning: Failed to
> download "https://www.opscode.com/chef/download?p=windows&pv=2012&m=x86_64";
> to "C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\chef-client-latest.msi"
> ec2-54-216-82-224.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com Warning: Retrying download
> with PowerShell if available
> ERROR: Failed to authenticate to
> ["ec2-54-216-82-224.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com"] as Administrator
> Response: Bad HTTP response returned from server (401).
>
> I've seen this before (and mentioned elsewhere on the interwebs) and it
> seems to be an issue with WinRM not being completely ready even if the port
> is there. I've solved this in my own script by adding a delay between the
> port being available and trying to execute the bootstrap. Not exactly
> elegant....
>
>
> /Jeppe
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Chirag Jog 
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>  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 
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>> 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
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>>
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