All you (or Bill Gates would) need for cooking with Chef and Vagrant on Windows, shrink-wrapped in a portable package:

• pre-configured Chef Repo with Vagrantfile to bring up a ready-to-use Chef Server
• DevKit 4.5.2 + Ruby 1.9.3.p392 (load time improvements >50%!) with lots of useful gems pre-installed:
  • basic gems:
    • vagrant (patched to make vagrant ssh work on windows)
    • chef (yeah you know what Chef is...)
  • librarian-chef (dependency management for cookbooks)
  • berkshelf (alternative for dependency management for cookbooks)
  • testing-related:
    • foodcritic (linting for your cookbooks)
    • chefspec (rspec examples for chef_run/cookbooks)
    • fauxhai (for mocking ohai attributes)
    • minitest-chef-handler (run smoke tests on the converged node)
    • cucumber-nagios (cucumber steps for systems testing)
    • test-kitchen (the "holistic test runner" from Opscode)
  • other:
  • veewee (for building vagrant baseboxes)
    • sahara (lets you take and restore virtualbox snapshots)
  • knife-solo (if you prefer to work in chef-solo mode)
  • knife-solo_data_bag (knife data bag commands for chef-solo)
  • knife-audit (for introspecting the complete run_list)
  • mccloud (like vagrant but for the cloud not local vms)
  • knife-server (for bootstrap/backup/restore of chef servers)
  • vagrant-vbguest (keeps your vbox guestadditions in sync)
• supporting tools such as:
  • ConEmu
  • SublimeText2 (with additional packages for Chef and Cucumber)
  • PortableGit (preconfigured with kdiff3 as diff/merge tool)
  • putty
• walkthrough tutorial and example cookbooks

The only requirement for using the devpack is a recent version of VirtualBox (couldn't make that one portable).

As a prerequisite for building bill's kitchen you need 7zip installed in C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe.

Build the kitchen (make sure you don't have spaces in the path):

gem install bundler
bundle install
rake build

This might take a while (you can go fetch a coffee). It will download the external dependencies and assemble the kitchen in the target/build directory, which is then packaged as target/bills-kitchen-<version>.7z

Make sure you have VirtualBox installed, then:

1. unzip the target/bills-kitchen-<version>.7z somewhere
2. mount the kitchen to the W:\ drive by double-clicking the mount-w-drive.bat file
3. click W:\Launch ConEmu.lnk to open a command prompt
4. in the command prompt run W:\set-env.bat to set up the PATH etc
5. walk through the GETTING_STARTED tutorial to get familiar with Vagrant, Chef & Co
6. continue with the COOKBOOK_DEVELOPMENT guide and start cooking your own recipes!