[deployment/chef] Fix custom variables handling on Windows

deployments/chef/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## chef-v0.17.0
 
+- Bug fix: Fix bug that caused custom variables to not be set when running on Windows
+  with a Splunk OTel Collector version >= `0.98.0`.
 - Remove the option `with_signalfx_dotnet_auto_instrumentation` used to
 install the deprecated `SignalFx Auto Instrumentation for .NET` on Windows.
 

deployments/chef/kitchen.windows.yml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ suites:
         splunk_memory_total_mib: "256"
         splunk_hec_token: fake-hec-token
         splunk_listen_interface: "0.0.0.0"
-        collector_version: 0.48.0
+        collector_version: 0.126.0
         collector_additional_env_vars:
           MY_CUSTOM_VAR1: value1
           MY_CUSTOM_VAR2: value2

deployments/chef/metadata.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 maintainer_email '[email protected]'
 license 'Apache-2.0'
 description 'Install/Configure the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector'
-version '0.16.0'
+version '0.17.0'
 chef_version '>= 16.0'
 
 supports 'amazon'

deployments/chef/recipes/default.rb

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 
   # Older MSI versions can't properly setup the collector configuration
   # in this case, we need to use the registry to set the environment variables.
-  unless node['splunk_otel_collector']['collector_msi_is_configurable']
+  # Custom variables also require using the registry, as the MSI doesn't support it.
+  if !node['splunk_otel_collector']['collector_msi_is_configurable'] || !node['splunk_otel_collector']['collector_additional_env_vars'].empty?
     include_recipe 'splunk_otel_collector::collector_win_registry'
   end
 

deployments/chef/test/integration/custom_vars/test.rb

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
   end
   collector_env_vars_strings.sort!
   describe registry_key('HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\splunk-otel-collector') do
+    it { should have_property 'Environment' }
     it { should have_property_value('Environment', :multi_string, collector_env_vars_strings) }
   end
   describe service('fluentdwinsvc') do