winservice-cookbook

Chef LWRP for creating and deleting Windows Services

Supported Platforms

Windows 2008R2
Windows 2012
Windows 2012R2

## Attributes

Key	Type	Description	Default
name	String	Name of the service	nil
bin_path	String	Full path to the executable	nil
start_type	String	Start type of the service	disabled
display_name	String	Display name of the windows service	nil
run_as_user	String	User to run the service	LocalSystem
run_as_password	String	Password for user, if other than LocalSystem	nil

Usage

Place a dependency on the winservice cookbook in your cookbook's metadata.rb

depends 'winservice'

Then, in a recipe:

win_service "Create Window Service" do
  name MyService
  bin_path C:\\My\\Awesome\\Path
  display_name MyAwesomeService
  run_as_user Foo\\Bar
  run_as_password MySuperSecretPassword
  action :create
end

win_service "Create Window Service" do
  name MyService
  action :delete
end

License and Authors

Author:: Amitraj Budhu (abudhu@gmail.com)