• Verifying WinRM Connectivity

  26 Apr 2017

  Originally found as a troubleshooting tip on the Chef Compliance server, I’ve found myself doing the following so often that I’m capturing this here for posterity. Hope this helps with your WinRM debugging journey! Here are a few steps to enable and verify the WinRM configuration of a node: From...

• Quick Guide to Chef-Vault

  02 Mar 2017

  1) Create a cleartext JSON file to be encrypted vi secrets.json 2) Create a vault from the file knife vault create myvault mysecrets -J /path/to/secrets.json Note: This only creates the vault locally. You’ll still need to upload the databag items (the encrypted content and the corresponding keys) to the Chef...