Knife bootstrap windows

Chef Infra (archive)
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Is there a way to change the chef client that is install when bootstrapping? Whenever I bootstrap a windows 10 laptop the knife outputs stating that it will install the default Windows server 2008 chef client.

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@Sydnguyen You can use --bootstrap-url option to customize chef-client installation or use --bootstrap-install-command 'exit 0' to skip chef-client installation. Just deploy chef-client part of your ami or vmdk.

If you’re using terraform, you can use skip_install = true from null_resource block.

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Thanks @suthir will the below code work in knife.rb

if[platform_version] =~ /10./
knife[:bootstrap_url] = "https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef/14.2.0/windows/2012r2/chef-client-14.2.0-1-x64.msi"
end
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@Sydnguyen yes, give it a shot.

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Nope
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@Sydnguyen try with --bootstrap-msi-url

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@suthir no luck, i think the if[platform_version] =~ /10./ in the knife.rb is not working cause I still see the output below.
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@Sydnguyen In order to fix platform_version condition, please obtain the value by running ohai platform_version on the node.

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Please see below

[ "10.0.17682"]
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@Sydnguyen Have you tried with 10.0.17682?

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@suthir yeah, i tried that still get the same issues.