Investigate Chef to automate sharepoint deployment

[grahamcrowell]

• is Chef best option? What else is there.
• what are prereqs of infrastructure to use Chef?
• json template to network and vms then Chef for software installs? (sp, sql etc)

[grahamcrowell]

Can Chef be used to join vms to the domain?

[grahamcrowell]

How is Chef installed via putty?

[grahamcrowell]

Going to use template script extension to include Ps script that will configure vms at deploy time