Workup

Workup is a workstation provisioning tool that focuses on cross-compatibility and minimal assumptions about the initial state of the machine.

All data is stored in ~/.workup

What does it do?

Workup uses Chef Policyfiles to run cookbooks

Installation

As a package

MacOS

On MacOS systems the install script is invoked with:

curl -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvent/workup/master/install.sh' | sudo bash

Microsoft Windows

On Microsoft Windows systems the install script is invoked using Windows PowerShell as an Administrator (The first command should not produce any output):

Set-ExecutionPolicy -Force RemoteSigned # Enable remote scripts
(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvent/workup/master/install.ps1') | iex

As a gem

chef gem install workup

Usage

Upgrading workup

Re-run the install script above

Uninstall workup

MacOS

sudo rm -rf /opt/workup
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/workup
sudo pkgutil --forget com.cvent.pkg.workup
# And if you want to forget all your system configuration data
sudo rm -rf ~/.workup

Converging your workstation

workup

Customizing workup

You can modify the ~/.workup/Policyfile.rb to use different chef cookbooks. Note, these changes will currently be overwritten if you run the install script.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cvent/workup.

Thanks

This was based on the pantry project by Chef.