Knife Windows plugin

Now, let's take a look at a couple of community knife plugins. We'll start with the Windows plugin. We use the knife Windows plugin when we are working with nodes running the Windows operating system. First, you will need to install the knife Windows plugin and then we will review how to use it to bootstrap a Windows node. Then, we will use some of the search features to see some of the Windows-specific node data.

Installing the Knife Windows plugin

Like many things related to the new ChefDK, installing Chef-specific gems is pretty straightforward and easy. In this case, we want to install the knife-windows gem. The command to do this is:

chef gem install knife-windows

That is all it takes. You are now ready to use the knife Windows plugin.

Bootstrapping a Windows node

Now that we have the knife Windows plugin installed, we can bootstrap our Windows nodes. There are two methods to interface with a Windows system when bootstrapping a node using the knife Windows...