• Understand what Chocolatey is;
• Understand the difference between packages and installers;
• Be able to create a package;
• Learn how to work with installers that won‘t install silently;
• Learn to use Pester to test your packages;
• Learn what the Chocolatey Community Repository is;
• Tips on how to keep your package continually updated;

Questions at the end. Plleeaassseeeee?

What Is Chocolatey?

To install PowerShell Core on Linux:

apt install -y powershell
yum install -y powershell
pacman -S powershell

To install PowerShell Core on Mac:

brew cask install powershell

To install PowerShell Core on Windows:

What Is Chocolatey?

• Chocolatey is the package manager for Windows
• Created by Rob Reynolds (@ferventcoder)
• First version released on 23 March 2011

Now Windows has:

choco install powershell-core -y

Chocolatey Prerequisites

• Windows 7+ / Server 2003+
• Windows PowerShell 2
• .NET 4 (TLS 1.2 requires .NET 4.5)
• No Nano Support (see GitHub issue #1371)

Fundamental Tenet Of Chocolatey

What Is A Chocolatey Package?

DEMO 1

Lets Look At Chocolatey Packages

Chocolatey Community Repository

Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

• Repository is at chocolatey.org hosted by Chocolatey;
• Chocolatey uses it as the default chocolatey package source;
• Vast majority of packages created by volunteer maintainers;
• Some vendors maintain their own packages;
• Repository is for the many and not the few - use is monitored;
• Licensing is important - does not have redistribution rights;

Organizational Community Repository Use

• Not recommended for direct use by organisations:
  • Reliability;
  • Trust;
  • Bandwidth;
  • Distribution rights;
• Recommend you create package repository with Artifactory, Nexus or ProGet;
• Disable Chocolatey Community Repository:

	choco source disable --name="'chocolatey'"

DEMO 2

Tips For Testing and Keeping Your Packages Continually Updated

Summary

• We know what Chocolatey is;
• We know how to create a package and how to use the template;
• Learned how to deal with troublesome installers;
• Use Pester to test our packages;
• Learn what happens when you submit a package to the Chocolatey Community Repository;
• What to use to keep your package continually updated;

Questions

	https://blog.pauby.com	Paul Broadwith
	@pauby
	github.com/pauby
	linkedin.com/in/paulbroadwith

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