Windows Web Deployment Toolkit Cookbook

Provides a set of Windows-specific primitives (Chef resources) meant to aid in the creation of cookbooks/recipes for .net applications targeting the Windows platform.

Requirements

Tested Platforms

• Windows Server 2012 (R2)

Cookbooks

The following cookbooks provided by Chef Software are required as noted:

• webpi (webdeploymenttoolkit::default leverages the webpi_product LWRP)

Attributes

• node['webdeploymenttoolkit']['WebDeployExe'] - used to execute the msdeploy.exe. default is %programfiles%\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V3\msdeploy.exe or %programfiles%\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy V2\msdeploy.exe.

Resource/Provider

web_deploy

Not idempotent. Executes MsDeploy to sync packages, change settings, load packages into the IIS Server from a file, and performs any operations specified by the package.

See the following links for MSDN Documentation on it's use.

Web Deploy Operations: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd568989%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Web Deploy Providers: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569040%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Actions

• :sync: Default. Syncs a deployment package to a target.
• :delete: Deletes components targeted in the dest parameter
• :dump: Runs the dump command with the xml flag. The dest is used to dump the output content
• :getDependencies: Dumps application dependencies
• :getSystemInfo: Dumps System information

Attribute Parameters

• source: name attribute. The source string as defined to a to the web deploy command line.
• dest: the destination string as defined to a to the web deploy command line.
• parameters: hash table of parameters and values that should be passed to msdeploy.

Examples

# Restore a Web Deploy Package
web_deploy "package=c:\dws.zip" do
    dest  'apphostconfig="Default Web Site"'
    action  :sync
end

# Backup a Website to Web Deploy Package
web_deploy 'apphostconfig="Default Web Site"' do
    store_name  "package=c:\dws.zip"
    action  :sync
end

# Deploy a Packaged Application with parameters
web_deploy 'package=c:\packagedApp.zip' do
    dest  'auto'
    parameters  { "IIS Web Application Name" => "Default Web Site/app", "connectionString" => "Database=stuff;user=me;pass=thing" }
    action  :sync
end

# Remove OldApp1 application
web_deploy "DeleteOldApp1" do
    dest  'apphostconfig="MySite/OldApp1"'
    action :delete
end

# Remove OldApp1 application
web_deploy "appPoolConfig" do
    dest  'C:/output/dump.xml'
    action :dump
end

# Export Server Dependencies
web_deploy "webServer" do
    dest  'C:/output/WebServerDependencies.xml'
    action :getDependencies
end

# Export System Info
web_deploy "webServerSystemInfo" do
    source  'webServer'
    dest  'C:/output/SystemInfo.xml'
    action :getSystemInfo
end