Automated Workspace Setup

What's worked for Jay and his tribe:

• homogenous workstation - all windows.
• self extracting zip, with bat files that install ancillary tools (IDE, JDK, etc)
• check registry for latest service packs, if not present get them and install.
• install scripts can also update workspace

What doesn't work for Jay and his tribe: Some cool tools don't work on windows

Other wins:

• spinning up VMs automatically based on base images.
• createing env through jira to enforce naming scheme and other conventions that make it all go.

Open problems:

Ideas to pursue:

Tools:

• cfengine
• puppet
• chef **Endorsed by Chris