Windows Subsystem for Linux - ChefDK

wsl_chefdk.ps1

# Update to Latest Windows 10 Spring Refresh

# Install WSL
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

# Get Ubuntu installed - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
wsl.exe

# Install ChefDK deb package

# Symlink Relevant Home Folders
cd ~
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/DwyerB/.aws/ .
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/DwyerB/.chef/ .
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/DwyerB/.ssh/ .

# Enable Regular Permissions
# /etc/wsl.conf
[automount]
enabled = true
options = "metadata,umask=77" # fmask=111 ? Not sure what fmask does yet

# Make it take effect Immediately
sudo umount /mnt/c
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=77



# Create Relevant PowerShell Functions
function kitchen
{
  wsl kitchen $args
}

function knife
{
  wsl knife $args
}

BEFORE

λ  Measure-Command { knife status }


Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 27
Milliseconds      : 621
Ticks             : 276213268
TotalDays         : 0.000319691282407407
TotalHours        : 0.00767259077777778
TotalMinutes      : 0.460355446666667
TotalSeconds      : 27.6213268
TotalMilliseconds : 27621.3268

AFTER

λ  Measure-Command { knife status }


Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 11
Milliseconds      : 251
Ticks             : 112516757
TotalDays         : 0.000130227728009259
TotalHours        : 0.00312546547222222
TotalMinutes      : 0.187527928333333
TotalSeconds      : 11.2516757
TotalMilliseconds : 11251.6757

Probably also want this in your ~/.bashrc to autoload SSH key into SSH Agent

# ssh-agent configuration
if [ -z "$(pgrep ssh-agent)" ]; then
    rm -rf /tmp/ssh-*
    eval $(ssh-agent -s) > /dev/null
else
    export SSH_AGENT_PID=$(pgrep ssh-agent)
    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(find /tmp/ssh-* -name agent.*)
fi

if [ "$(ssh-add -l)" == "The agent has no identities." ]; then
    ssh-add
fi

My experience was a little different. Needed to run an elevated PowerShell session by creating a cmd file to execute PowerShell and launched by right-clicking the cmd file and running elevated with avecto. This allowed me to run the Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature as above to get wsl enabled but there was no wsl.exe. I then downloaded the Ubuntu distro, enabled sideloading but ended up stuck. After enabling developer mode I was able to execute bash from an elevated ps session. This triggered a download of ubuntu which then downloaded. It's still "extracting the filesystem" though so ymmv.

Probably want something like this in /etc/sudoers.d too

%myyusername ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL
Defaults env_keep += "http_proxy https_proxy no_proxy"

You can use Chocolatey's Shimgen to create links to Linux tools...

This can come in handy for getting linters and such to work correctly in Atom

# Shellcheck
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\tools\shimgen.exe -p $(which wsl).Source -c 'shellcheck' -o 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\shellcheck.exe'

# Rubocop
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\tools\shimgen.exe -p 'C:\opscode\chefdk\embedded\bin\rubocop.bat' -o C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\rubocop.exe

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\tools\shimgen.exe -p $(which wsl).Source -c 'chef exec rubocop' -o C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\rubocop.exe

For GPG behind a proxy

RVM Installation

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --keyserver-options http-proxy=$http_proxy --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB

@bschmoll that was basically my experience as well, although i first tried the Debian install. I eventually found this article that just led me to execute bash in a cmd window, and it worked.
The symlinks in the OP's gist are very helpful; now I'm trying to figure out how to get knife and kitchen to work. The error i get is:
bash: /mnt/c/opscode/chefdk/bin/kitchen: C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/bin/ruby.exe: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
So i think i have to set a new ruby PATH? I'm not very good at this kind of thing - i get it, but i tend to not know where to look.