Chrome Cookbook

This cookbook installs Google Chrome browser (https://www.google.com/chrome/) and provides a resource to set default user preferences.

Requirements

Chef 11.14.2 and Ruby 1.9.3 or higher.

Platform

• Windows Server 2012 R2

Cookbooks

• windows

Usage

Add recipe[chrome] to a run list.

Get version installed:

Registry.get_value('HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon', 'version')

Preferences

Manage a template resource for configuring master preferences.

Resource Attributes

Current attributes used by preferences:

• name - The name of the preference.
• cookbook - Optional. Cookbook where the source template is. If this is not defined, Chef will use the named template in the cookbook where the definition is used.
• template - Default master_preferences.json.erb, source template file.
• params - Additional parameters, see Examples.

Examples

The following example would look for a template named master_preferences.json.erb in your cookbook.

chrome 'custom_preferences' do
  params(
    homepage: 'https://mycompany.com/'
    import_bookmarks_from_file: 'c:\path\to\bookmarks.html'
  )
  action :preferences
end

The chrome cookbook comes with a master_preferences.json.erb template as an example. The following parameter is used in the template:

• homepage - Sets the homepage URL.

To use the default template preferences, set cookbook to chrome, for example:

chrome 'set_user_preferences' do
  cookbook 'chrome'
  params(
    homepage: 'https://www.getchef.com'
  )
  action :preferences
end

The parameter specified will be used as:

• @params[:homepage]

In the template, when you write your own, the @ is significant.

Attributes

• node['chrome']['src'] - URI to Google Chrome FTW (MSI installer).
• node['chrome']['master_preferences'] - Path to Chrome master_preferences file.

Getting Help

• Ask specific questions on Stack Overflow.
• Report bugs and discuss potential features in Github issues.

Contributing

Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.

License

MIT - see the accompanying LICENSE file for details.