and Coding with a Pict

First we need to get winrm functional.  To do that, we log into the node host, open up powershell, and paste in the following:

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://code.can.cd/winrm_setup.bat','winrm_setup.bat') ; .\winrm_setup.bat

BAM — winrm now works.  If on Azure cloud, set up the winrm endpoint for 5985.

Now get onto a term in your chef workstation, get to your chef environment (confirm knife command works from that dir or whatnot), and then to bootstrap:

knife bootstrap windows winrm jamesd004.cloudapp.net -x chef -P 'ooooh123!' -N jamesd004

That should be it. Confirm with:

knife node list

The last step is to manually converge the node with:

knife winrm 'jamesd004.cloudapp.net' 'chef-client -c c:/chef/client.rb' -m -x chef -P 'ooooh123!'

That’s it — the results will pour out on your screen. You will sing. You will dance. You’ll leave early because mission accomplished for the day.