Windows nodes Registering to Chef Server

Chef Automate
1

Greetings Professionals ,

I have like more than 50 windows machines with different local host names and different passwords i have been trying to register manually by executing bootstrapping command 50 times for each windows server and make them register on my chef automate server and its like pain in the neck… can any one please help me in avoiding this situation and im sure there will be a possibility to automate this in a single shot but im not aware of …or is there any cookbooks for this move provided?

Below are the example
Can you please give me an example how to perform the script…by taking these windows machines as example

10.0.10.1 password : aqxwey
10.0.10.2 password : ijzzxy
10.0.10.3 password :pytyttsz

I have been using this command to bootstrap each and every windows manchine for 50 times to get all nodes registered to chefautomate server

knife bootstrap windows winrm 10.0.10.1 -x ‘stmsltapp31d\Administrator’ -P ‘N7eqkqv?ds(’ -N stlmsltapp31d

Thanks
Prash

2

This would depend on what the machine is you are running the bootstrap commands?

You could just fill out a simple CSV file with 2 column minimum (I would add a name & possibly a username column as well depending if the need is there) and ‘foreach loop’ through them all using Powershell on windows.

CSV would look like:

Name    IP             Pass        User
node1   192.168.1.1    Pass01      domain1\user1
node2   192.168.1.2    Pass02      domain2\user2

The import the CSV into a variable:

$nodes = Import-Csv -Path c:\mynodes.csv

Then we need to ForEach loop through each of them (*** Disclaimer*** I haven’t tested this):

foreach ($node.name in $nodes)
{
    # Output the node name to the console
    Write-Host "Bootstraping machine $node.name"

    # Bootstrap the node
    knife bootstrap windows winrm $node.ip-x $node.user -P $node.pass -N $node.name
}
3

Greetings Sir,

Thank you for your valuable time and patience for giving me the solution , i have been using linux machine to run the bootstrap commands . is it possible to perform the above task from linux machine or should i have to do that particularly on windows? please guide me …

Thanks
Prash

4

It would most def be possible, but as I am not as proficient in BASH as I am PowerShell you would need to do a little research on this.

Have a read of this for creating an array from the CSV file.

Have a read through this to see how to loop through an array in bash.

Hopefully you can put the info together to meet your needs…