Today, I’ll be outlining some examples and patterns for packaging Windows applications with Habitat.

Today, I’ll be introducing some of the basics forHabitat, specifically focusing on Habitat on Windows. I won’t be covering all the things as the Habitat website has a tremendous amount of reference material. I will be calling out some things that are either pitfalls or differing between Linux and Windows.

I recently did a customer call/demo around using Chef to patch Windows systems and I thought this would make a great post. However, I’m going to change one thing, we’re going review patching as a fundamental process and cover more than Windows.

Today, I’m going to detail out how we are setting up our pipelining process for all things Chef for our business unit partners. This process uses a combination of Chef, Jenkins, GitHub, a custom Jenkins Shared Library, and some custom developed utilities.

Let the continuous integration begin! It took a little tinkering (mostly around getting the FTP upload to work), but I have TravisCI working with GitHub. I’m planning to detail out the process in a future post.