Chef, Microsoft and Open Source - State of the Nation

It's 2017 and 60% of all VMs started in the Azure cloud are Linux based, Microsoft are significant open source contributors and some products of theirs that you never expected to run cross-platform now do. We will explore some of these products and how they can be deployed, tested and managed using the Chef toolset.

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1. Chef, Microsoft and Open Source - State of the Nation stuart@chef.io
2. About Stuart Preston @stuartpreston - Awesome Community Chef 2016 - Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - Open Source Contributor/Maintainer - Author “Using Chef with Microsoft Azure” (2016) - Artist formerly known as - Based in London, UK Joined Chef Product Team January 2017
3. “Oh, so you’re the Windows guy?”
4. Microsoft and Open Source
8. “Special mentions”
9. Windows Services for Linux (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) • Windows feature that allows user mode Linux calls to execute on top of a Windows kernel. • Enabled as a Windows optional feature with a download of Ubuntu when you first execute “bash.exe” (avoid getting on a plane)
11. Docker on Windows
12. Visual Studio Code and extension ecosystem
14. Recent Chef and Windows improvements TL;DR - Test Kitchen supports reboots! https://discourse.chef.io/t/test-kitchen-1-10-0-released/8721 provisioner: name: chef_zero require_chef_omnibus: 12.11 # need the RFC 062 exit codes retry_on_exit_code: - 35 # 35 is the exit code signaling that the node is rebooting max_retries: 1 client_rb: exit_status: :enabled # Opt-in to the standardized exit codes client_fork: false # Forked instances don't return the real exit code
15. Recent Chef and Windows improvements TL;DR - Chef Client for Nano Server .appx format installers (and WinRM improvements) http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/creating-a-docker-container-host-on-windows-nan o-server-with-chef - name: windowsnano driver_config: image_urn: MicrosoftWindowsServer:WindowsServer:2016-Nano-Server:latest transport: name: winrm provisioner: install_msi_url: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/nano-chef-client/chef-12.14.60.appx
16. Recent Chef and Windows improvements TL;DR - knife rehash - speed up slow knife loading time on Windows especially... http://grdnr.io/slow-knife-speed-up-with-knife-rehash/ PS C:\Users\spreston> knife rehash Knife subcommands are cached in C:/Users/spreston/.chef/plugin_manifest.json. Delete this file to disable the caching. - Windows installer includes Scheduled Task creation: https://docs.chef.io/windows.html msiexec /qn /i C:\inst\chef-client-12.4.3-1.windows.msi ADDLOCAL="ChefClientFeature,ChefSchTaskFeature,ChefPSModuleFeature"
17. Recent Chef and Azure improvements TL;DR - Azure Resource Manager driver moved into the Test Kitchen organization https://github.com/test-kitchen/kitchen-azurerm Contributors are always welcome!
19. “Chef and the Microsoft ecosystem” “Chef on Windows”
21. CfgMgmtCamp Talks Tuesday • Main Track 14:00 - Operating Systems are Assholes • Future Tooling - 14:40 - Now That I Have Choreography, What Can I Do With It? • Chef Room- 14:00 - Shared Services is Not a Field of Dreams • Chef Room - 14:40 - CI/CD Workflows at Enterprise Sports Scale • Chef Room - 15:40 - How to get the most of Foreman and Chef • Main Track 16:20 - Food Fight Show
22. Thanks! Email stuart@chef.io Tweet @stuartpreston Give us feedback! https://feedback.chef.io Chef related talks this week: http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/schedule/chef.html