[chef] RE: Re: custom json attributes to powershell variables

[Simon Hawkins < >]

Hi Greg,

 

It would be both, therefore, how would I pass them when I type “knife bootstrap windows winrm 10.x.x.x –J $ipAddress  $SNMask $GW $DNS”  (if –J is the right way to do it)

 

And then in for example a recipe file called change_IP.rb I would have a powershell script declaring Powershell variables such like:

 

$ipAddress = DetailsPassedInFromBootstrap

$SNMask = DetailsPassedInFromBootstrap

$GW = DetailsPassedInFromBootstrap

$DNS = DetailsPassedInFromBootstrap

 

Which would then change the local IP once the recipe is applied.

 

If that makes sense?

 

Cheers,

Simon

From: Greg Zapp [mailto:
Sent: 04 June 2014 14:21
To:
Subject: [chef] Re: custom json attributes to powershell variables

 

Hi Simon,

 

Is your difficulty with getting the attributes into Chef or using them once they are there?

 

-Greg

 

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:36 PM, < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi,

Do you know how I would be able to save JSON custom attributes to a powershell
variable in a recipe?

When I bootstrap a Windows machine I would like to pass the IP, Subnet, GW and
DNS Servers into custom attributes and when the recipe is applied, the windows
machine sets the correct information to the network card (using powershell).

Since knife vsphere doesn't currently support vmware windows customisations I
can't think of another way.

So I would end up with something like this in the recipe (which is a powershell
script):

$ipAddress = customIPAttribute
$gateway = customGWAttribute
etc, within the recipe.

Cheers,
Simon.

 

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