In this session, Dwight will talk about how you can automate your BizTalk Installations and Deployments using Chef.

1. How to automate your BizTalk
Installations and Deployments
using Chef?
Dwight Goins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwight-goins-5918361

2. How-To Automate BizTalk with
Chef
METHODOLOGY BEHIND BIZTALK SERVER
AUTOMATION WITH CHEF SCRIPTS

3. Who Am I
3
• Ex MVP Integration
• Current MVP Windows Development
• MCT, MCSD
• 20+ years of development – C++/C#
• Likes Emerging Experiences

4. Agenda
4
• BizTalk Server?
• Why Automate?
• How to Automate?
• Chef?
• BizTalk Cookbook

5. What Is BizTalk Server?
5

6. Why Automate?
6
• Prerequisite Downloads
• Preparing reveals hidden secrets
• Multiple Steps
• 2 Whole Weeks on Client Network

7. How to Automate
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Automated Script
Research
automated
options
Record
Actions
Do Manual
Install

8. Chef?
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• Chef = Framework
for building
Automated Scripts

9. Chef Architecture
9

10. Chef - Kitchen
10
• Kitchen = Environment
where you make,
verify and
test cookbooks

11. Chef - Cookbook
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• Cookbooks = Multiple listings of recipes

12. Chef - Recipe
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• Recipe = Step by Step
instructions on
what to automate

13. BizTalk Cookbook
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• Multiple Recipes
• Prerequisites
• BizTalk Install
• BizTalk Configuration
• BizTalk Custom Application Deployment

14. What’s Next
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• Go Try it out for yourself
• https://supermarket.chef.io
• https://learn.chef.io/tutorials
• https://github.com/dngoins/BiztalkCookbook