Chef Rally - Set up a machine to manage - Problems

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi -

I’m trying to set up a chef machine working through Chef Rally. but the install command fails as below

PS C:\Users\Administrator> . { iwr -useb https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.ps1 } | iex; install -project chefdk -channel
 stable -version 2.5.3

ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------
Script     0.0        Omnitruck                           {Get-ProjectMetadata, Install-Project, install}
There was an error:
        Exception calling "DownloadString" with "1" argument(s): "The remote name could not be resolved: 'omnitruck.chef
.io'"
        The remote name could not be resolved: 'omnitruck.chef.io'
Failed to download from https://omnitruck.chef.io/stable/chefdk/metadata?v=2.5.3&p=windows&pv=2012r2&m=x86_64.
At line:70 char:5
+     throw "Failed to download from $uri."
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (Failed to downl...012r2&m=x86_64.:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Failed to download from https://omnitruck.chef.io/stable/chefdk/metadata?v=2.5.3&p=windo
   ws&pv=2012r2&m=x86_64.

I think I’ve resolved it by installing chocolatey. I am not sure why it works via chocolatey but not the command provided? But was thinking perhaps you could include the chocolatey install steps in chef rally?

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Choco Install ChefDK

Choco Install VSCode

thought this might help someone else getting started.