[chef] Re: Re: Chef and PowerShell DSC

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Hi Bjoern,

Adam Edwards and I were just talking about this last week, and we have a fair amount of work to do before the DSC integration is in a decent shape to release. The demo earlier this year was very much a PoC ... you know how it goes :-)

We also have to deal with issues like getting PowerShell 4.0 onto boxes. You're welcome to hack on that part if you want (extending the Powershell cookbook for it)

We hope to have some time to work on it in December, with a release in January.

- Julian

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM, "> < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi Russell,

i'am the one who was asking this question back in September. I'm considering hacking the dsc + chef integration quick-n-dirty , but it wouldn't be very flexible and extensible.

Maybe Adam(Edwards) can jump in and told us about the current state.  I would like to contribute/test, too.

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Bjoern

2013/11/8 Russell Seymour < " target="_blank"> >

Good afternoon,

 

We are looking to use Chef to help configure our large Windows Development environment.  I have been using Chef for several years now so fully understand its benefits.  As DSC is now emerging as a system to configure Windows machines I have been looking at the integration between the two.

 

I have seen the video given (link from http://www.opscode.com/blog/2013/08/19/opscode-chef-delivers-robust-open-source-automation-platform-for-windows-environments/) about how Chef and DSC can be used together.  I note that the was a Provider that was shown called ‘dsc_configuration_script’ and I was wondering when this would be available in Chef to use.

I appreciate that someone asked this same question back in September (http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef/2013-09/msg00247.html).

 

There is another slide show that states that Chef and DSC integration should be coming late 2013, on slide 4 - http://www.slideshare.net/opscode/opscode-webinar-cooking-with-chef-on-microsoft-windows but no specific date.

 

We would really like to integrate the two systems, and preferably using the system that Opscode comes up with rather than rolling our own.  Is it possible to have a look at what you are doing and / or help to develop / debug it?

 

Thank you very much.

 

Regards,

 

Russell Seymour

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