DSC in Chef

Nano Server with Kitchen.ci, Hyper-V AND Pester

March 27, 2017 March 27, 2017 / DSC in Chef / Leave a Comment

In the past I’ve used Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012 for testing Chef cookbooks for Windows. I’ve always got it working but it was slow. These VM images are typically around 20GB in size so it took time to spin them up and get them going. Creating, converging and verifying a simple cookbook with Kitchen …

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DSC in Chef: Converting Ruby Hashes to PowerShell Types

May 11, 2016 October 20, 2016 / DSC in Chef / 6 Comments

Background Chef on Windows in the past has not had a great story but over the last 6 months they have come a long way to improve their support for the platform. In February of 2016 Microsoft also released the Windows Management Framework 5.0 with significant Desired State Configuration (DSC) improvements. Chef and DSC are …

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