How To Set Up

Basics

• Server 2012 R2
• Windows Management Framework 5 - February Preview (The April preview and Production Preview from August break Test-Kitchen).
• A recent ChefDK (newer than 0.6.0
• This repository

Setting the stage

• Before each of the following (if you are on separate machines)

Find-Module ChefConfSamples | Install-Module

chef shell-init powershell | invoke-expression

Change directories into the Website_Samples directory from the repository

Running the DSC Sample

. ./Examples/simple_webserver.ps1
SimpleWebserver -ConfigurationData $ConfigurationData
Start-DscConfiguration -path ./SimpleWebserver -verbose -wait

Running the "traditional Chef recipe"

chef-client -z -o basic_website

Running a recipe with "dsc_script"

chef-client -z -o 'basic_website::dsc_script'

Running a recipe with "dsc_resource"

chef-client -z -o 'basic_website::dsc_resource'