# Chef in a Windows monoculture - success examples?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733 "2016-10-20T15:56:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![emarzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@emarzo](https://discourse.chef.io/u/emarzo)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733/21 "2016-11-02T08:37:24Z")

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Here some examples 😉

> **[Cooking on Windows Sever..](https://devopsrecipes.info/2016/08/04/cooking-on-windows-sever/)**
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> Hi guys! I have to manage Windows Server 2008 using Chef.. First of all, I need to choose the strategy for bootstrapping the new node and I am going to use an unattended bootstrap.. Configuring net…

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**Author:** ![Gregoire\_Seux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/gregoire_seux/32/491_2.png) [@Gregoire\_Seux](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Gregoire_Seux)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733/22 "2016-11-02T09:11:26Z")

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@seth

We use [https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/wsus-client](https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/wsus-client) and [https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/wsus-server](https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/wsus-server) to manage wsus. We also use the reboot\_point from windows cookbook to reboot the server if necessary

Since chef runs without coordination by default, we use [https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/choregraphie](https://github.com/criteo-cookbooks/choregraphie) to add the coordination layer on windows reboots.

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**Author:** ![joerod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joerod](https://discourse.chef.io/u/joerod)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733/23 "2017-03-14T18:10:40Z")

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I just found this thread and its great! We’re looking to role out Chef for our entire infrustructure (moslty Linux, but around 1300 windows). I’m the Windows engineer working on our build using chef. For the most part its been great, just learning Ruby and how Chef works. The most difficult challenge I’ve run into and something I wish Chef would make easier is dealing with our proxy. Chef tries to go to the internet for everything, most corporate IT have proxies that get in the way. So when I try and install chef-vault it fails saying it can’t reach the internet. I also wish there was more examples geared toward the Windows environment.

cookbooks I’m using  
windows  
dsc  
chef-vault  
wsus-client  
powershell (installs powershell)

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**Author:** ![imageeksowhat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/imageeksowhat/32/1359_2.png) [@imageeksowhat](https://discourse.chef.io/u/imageeksowhat)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733/24 "2017-03-14T22:25:54Z")

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Joe, you can get around the proxy issue, by either adding a bootstrp proxy  
flag to your bootstrap command, or you can just point internally for repos.  
regarding chef-vault, proxy issue, you can try to add a http\_proxy line to  
your client.rb file to ensure it uses the proxy.

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**Author:** ![joerod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joerod](https://discourse.chef.io/u/joerod)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-in-a-windows-monoculture-success-examples/9733/25 "2017-03-15T12:32:29Z")

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Yes I have a recipe that installed the chef-vault gem then chef vault has options in default.rb to specify the gem source to use.

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