Bootstrapping Chef clients on Microsoft Azure
I’ve been working with Chef on Microsoft Azure (and more recently, Chef Provisioning – the subject of a much longer blog post which I am still busily writing…watch this space!) I came up with the below...
View ArticleChef Provisioning with Microsoft Azure – part 1
Introduction Chef Provisioning promises to “idempotently create and converge machines, images, load balancers and other infrastructure, no matter where they are” – so we are talking about the...
View ArticleEnabling the Chef VM Extension on a Microsoft Azure VM using Powershell
As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, there are many ways to install and configure (“bootstrap”) a Chef client when using Microsoft Azure. One of these ways is by enabling the AzureVMChefExtension....
View ArticleChef Provisioning with Microsoft Azure – v0.3.2 released (Windows/WinRM support)
This post follows on from my earlier post Chef Provisioning with Microsoft Azure – part 1 It has been an incredible couple of months since I started contributing to the project with many new...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure and Chef taster day at BCS in London – 29th May 2015
Our good friends at Chef are running a ‘Microsoft Azure/Chef taster day’ in London on 29th May 2015, where you will get to use Chef with Microsoft Azure, including tools such as Chef Provisioning. This...
View ArticleI’m writing a book all about using Chef with Microsoft Azure
This week, contracts were finalised and so I can announce that I’m writing a book all about provisioning with Microsoft Azure and Chef for Apress. With a myriad of recent changes to navigate in Azure,...
View ArticleChef Provisioning with Azure Resource Manager preview
Those of you who are interested in provisioning in the Microsoft Azure world, I’ve released an experimental version of a Chef Provisioning driver for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) on GitHub. The driver...
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