[chef] Re: Windows Blues, part 2

[Adam Edwards < >]

Thanks for the summary Jeppe. KNIFE-286 should be addressed in master today and the ticket will be updated, and there are a few other fixes going into knife-windows. I'd like to release that set of changes as soon as possible, I'll give an update on Wednesday once we're firm on the timeline for release, and whether we include the other 3 you list below. Normally I would rather wait on those, but they completely block the ssh scenarios.

Regarding Server 2012, I'd like to be clear on what's blocked — is it bootstrap that's failing or recipes that require more quota (e.g. Sql server)? I would not expect the former since we found that a while ago and worked around it. For the latter, is the scheduled task workaround an option?

-Adam

From: Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < "> >
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Date: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:12 AM
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Subject: [chef] Windows Blues, part 2

Ohai,

Just a quick update on our quest to deploy Windows Server 2012 on EC2.

As mentioned previously, we've given up on using WinRM due the bug with quota management. So we're using SSH instead and after some initial issues everything is working now.

It does take quite a few modifications to the knife-ec2 & knife-windows plugins in order to bootstrap on EC2 using plain knife:

* Using 32-bit FreeSSHD requires http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-249

* Plain bugs in plugins: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-284, http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-285

* No ability to specify initial JSON attributes: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-286

Hopefully these will be resolved soon. I'll probably write up a blog post at some point with our findings....

/Jeppe