The Old Way

I’ve got a longer post about building a cookbook to set up for Chef development. This felt kludgy and hard to maintain, so I played around a little bit.

The New Way

Now, I’ve got a couple of snippets that get me pretty well on my way.

First (from PowerShell), some basic ExecutionPolicy configuration. Then install the latest ChefDK and Chocolatey. After that, apply a basic Chef recipe to install Git, ConEmu, Visual Studio Code, 7Zip, WinMerge, and Vagrant.

# Setup my execution policy for both the 64 bit and 32 bit shells
set-executionpolicy remotesigned
start-job -runas32 {set-executionpolicy remotesigned} | receive-job -wait

# Install the latest stable ChefDK
invoke-restmethod 'https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1' | iex
install-project chefdk -verbose

# Install Chocolatey
invoke-expression ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation

# Get a basic setup recipe
invoke-restmethod 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/smurawski/da67107b5efd00876af7bb0c8cfe8453/raw' | out-file -encoding ascii -filepath c:/basic.rb

# Use Chef Apply to setup 
chef-apply c:/basic.rb

After Visual Studio Code is installed, you’ll want to install a couple of handy extensions:

• Chef - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Pendrica.Chef
• PowerShell - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.PowerShell