When we talk about configuration management and automation, we're often talking about automating Linux or UNIX platforms. Less frequently mentioned is how to automate Windows, an operating system that is widely used, but can often be a challenge to automate.
In this talk, I'll review some approaches to doing configuration management on Windows using out-of-the-box declarative Chef resources. I'll also discuss how Chef on Windows compares/relates to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Powershell, and some of the exciting new features in Windows 2012R2 a/k/a Desired State Configuration (DSC).
Julian's slides are available on slideshare.
Julian (@julian_dunn) is a senior consulting engineer with Chef Software, Inc. where he helps customers learn and implement Chef. He has over a decade of software development and systems administration experience at outfits large and small. When he's not helping customers with Chef, he enjoys good craft beer, indie music, and writing biographies about himself in the third person.