[chef] Deploying Applications to Windows

[Dan Powell < >]

Hello,

I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to tackle a specific task. The task I need to perform is to take a build artifact ( a 7zip archive) and deploy it (extract and copy) to a server in an idempotent manner ie don't redeploy the application/build artifact if it already exists on the target server during a chef-client run. The target server will be a windows machine and won't have an SSH server running so I can't use the chef deploy resource (if I understand it correctly).

Has someone tackled a similar problem before, are you able to provide any advice on the best way to tackle this?

My current thinking is to bundle this into a LWRP which will compute a master checksum of all files in the artifact and then compare this with a master checksum of the files deployed to the target server.

Thanks in Advance

Dan