Support for Chef Workstation

[nweddle]

I would like the option to choose between installing Chef Workstation or ChefDK on my pipelines.

One benefit would be the ability to use chef-run on remote targets in some deployment scenarios.

[stuartpreston]

Thanks for the reminder - we'll definitely look to add this in a future round of updates.

[gsreynolds]

Just also to document this here, to be able to fully use the extension with Chef Workstation the current workaround is needed with Windows build agents. (Affects any tasks that use chef exec e.g. Test Kitchen)

New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "C:\opscode\chef-dk\" -Target "C:\opscode\chef-workstation\"
cp C:\opscode\chef-workstation\bin\chef C:\opscode\chef-workstation\bin\chef.bat

The copy is needed as the extension is looking for chef.bat, which is no longer present in Chef Workstation.

azuredevops-chef/tasks/common/settings.ts

Line 65 in 07f1f5e

settings["paths"]["chef"] = path.join(settings["paths"]["chefdk"], "bin", "chef.bat");

C:\opscode\chef-workstation\bin> ls chef*

    Directory: C:\opscode\chef-workstation\bin

Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a----        27/01/2020    11:11             26 chef
-a----        27/01/2020    11:11        2940416 chef.exe
-a----        27/01/2020    11:11       12674560 chef-analyze.exe
-a----        27/01/2020    11:11          12135 chef-apply
-a----        27/01/2020    11:11             56 chef-apply.bat
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[raghureddy45]

Hi, any update on this?
We would want to use chef workstation on Linux agents.