How To Bootstrap Chef on Windows Using WinRM

Overview

This article discusses how to bootstrap chef on a Windows server via WinRM.

Considerations

You'll need to install the knife-windows plugin on your CloudBolt instance so that knife will be able to connect to a remote Windows server via the WinRM transport. More info about this plugin is available at https://github.com/chef/knife-windows

Procedure

Step 1 Install the plugin by using the chefdk gem command

1. Run $ /opt/chefdk/embedded/bin/gem install knife-windows

Step 2 Verify it is installed

1. $ knife winrm --help