Last weekend I found myself in the unfortunate position where my Windows 10 installation was no longer stable and I couldn’t figure out how to save it. After 2 days of failing attempts to rescue it I decided to set it up from scratch.
Since Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a vital part of DevOps I decided to apply it in this case as well. In my working life I already rely on Chocolatey to install most of my software. Boxstarter builds on top of Chocolatey and supports the fully automated setup of a new Windows machine.
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