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](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2157554/how-to-handle-command-line-arguments-in-powershell) — Ryan Bemrose, Apr 11 '16 at 21:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '16 at 22:07

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']}"

Passing variables from chef to powershell

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