As with all guides, the journey must begin somewhere. In this chapter, we will start from the beginning, covering some important information about using Chef with Windows. It contains a brief refresher of some material you may already know about if you have used Chef before, and then we continue with getting Chef installed onto a Windows host.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Reviewing key Chef terminology
Describing the overall Chef system architecture
Installing the Chef client on a Windows system manually
Using the bootstrap script provided as part of Chef to install the client