Chocolatey

If you want to host Chocolatey packages internally install Chocolatey. See Install Chocolatey

Store your username in an environment variable

We will use it in the .kitchen.yml file of the Chef SDK.

Open the Git Bash window and execute the command echo ‘export USER=`whoami | tr -d “\\n”`’ >> ~/.bashrc

Virtual Box

Download Virtual Box from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and follow the instructions to install it.

At the time of writing, this was the section where the installer files were referenced

Run the downloaded installer file and accept all default values.

The installer starts the Virtual Box application.You can close it, we will use other tools to start it in the future.

To be able to launch 64 bit guest operating systems turn off Hyper-V in Windows Features

In the Windows search box enter Windows Features and select Turn Windows Features on or off,
Uncheck Hyper-V and click OK,
Reboot the computer for the setting to take effect.

Configure VirtualBox

Networking

To share the connectivity of the host computer with the virtual machine, mainly if you use VPN

In Virtual box click Settings
Select Network
Attach the network adapter to NAT

Copy and paste

To enable copy and paste between the virtual machine and the host ( your workstation )

On the General tab of the Settings page select the Bidirectional shared clipboard

Shared Folders

Specify the shared folder on your workstation

In the VirtualBox menu select Preferences
On the Shared Folders tab click the + icon
To share the entire system drive, select the C: drive of your workstation

Enable shared folders on the virtual machines

To enable the shared folders on the virtual machine and other configurations see Virtual machine configuration at VirtualBox

Vagrant

For Vagrant installation see Vagrant.

Ruby

Download Ruby from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads
Install the 32 bit version, as the 64 bit version is fairly new and has compatibility issues. Download the latest Ruby installer. Pick the file that does not have the (x64) at the end.
Accept the default values but check Add Ruby executables to your PATH

Ruby Development Kit

The Ruby Development Kit is need for certain Ruby gems, so install it.

Download the Ruby Development Kit from the DEVELOPMENT KIT section of http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads
If you have installed the 32 bit version of Ruby make sure you install the 32 bit version of the DevKit. Select the Development kit that matches the Ruby version you installed. At the time of writing the latest development kit is under “For use with Ruby 2.0 and above (32bits version only)”
- Run the installer to extract it to a permanent location (C:\RubyDevKit)
- Open a command window in the C:\RubyDevKit folder
- Run these commands in the command prompt to install it.
  - ruby dk.rb init
  - ruby dk.rb install
For more information see http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

Chef Development Kit

Download the Chef Development Kit from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/
Follow the instructions to install it.

Terraform by Hashicorp

Install it with Chocolatey

Open a Git Bash window as administrator
Execute choco install terraform

Manual installation

Download Terraform from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
Unzip the downloaded package to C:\HashiCorp\Terraform
Add the Terraform directory to the path of the computer. It is not added automatically on 64 bit Windows.
- In Windows Explorer right-click Computer and select Properties,
- On the left side select Advanced System Settings,
- At the bottom click the Environment Variables… button,
- In the System Variables box select Path and click the Edit… button,
- Add the following to the end of the Variable value. (Don’t forget to start with the semicolon as the separator). ;C:\HashiCorp\Terraform
To create RDS (Relational Database Service) instances in AWS, install the Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface (See instructions below)
Configure the GitBash window to run as administrator to be able to execute the “terraform get” command to get local modules during development
- Right click the shortcut of the Bash window you use and select Properties
- On the Compatibility tab check Run this program as an administrator

For more details see https://www.terraform.io/intro/getting-started/install.html

Graphviz

Graphviz is a Dependency Graph Visualization Software. We will use this utility to display the Terraform graphs.

Download from http://www.graphviz.org/Download..php
There are really two dots in the address :-)
Execute the installer
You may need to add the location to the Path environment variable. Make sure you use the actual folder name, as it contains the version of the application. ;C:\Program Files (x86)\GraphvizX.XX\bin

AWS CLI

The Amazon Web Services command line interface installation will set up your workstation to launch instances in AWS from Test Kitchen. If you know you will work with AWS, see DevOps Engineering part 3. – Working with AWS for the AWS CLI installation.

Packer

We use Packer to create custom AWS AMIs that contain the fundamental configuration and applications that are common in every instance we launch.

Install with Chocolatey

Open a Git Bash window as administrator
Execute choco install packer

Manual Installation

Download and install packer from https://www.packer.io/docs/installation.html
Add the Packer executable or installation directory to the system path

Install the DevOps development tools on Windows