Passing variables from chef to powershell

Question

I am using the powershell_script cookbook. The powershell script that I would like to use takes command line inputs. Is there a way to pass variables from chef and pass them into the powershell script?

input1 = "input1"
input2 = "input2"

powershell_script 'example' do
  code "...\example.ps1"
end

So if my example.ps1 took input1 and input2 as command line arguments how would I pass them into:

code "...\example.ps1"

Possible duplicate of How to handle command-line arguments in PowerShell — Ryan Bemrose
– Ryan Bemrose, Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 21:20

coderanger · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-11 22:07:26Z

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The code property on the powershell_script resource takes the literal PowerShell code you want to run, not a path to it. Regardless, you would handle it via string interpolation. For example:

execute "C:/path/to/example.ps1 #{node['foo']} #{node['bar']}"

answered Apr 11, 2016 at 22:07

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