• What is Chocolatey?
• Chocolatey Sources;
• Internalizing packages;
• Recommended Organizational Architecture;
• Common scenarios where Chocolatey automation will help you;

Based on the blog post https://pau.by/chocojenkins

What Is Chocolatey?

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, like apt-get or yum but for Windows. It was designed to be a decentralized framework for quickly installing applications and tools that you need. It is built on the NuGet infrastructure currently using PowerShell as its focus for delivering packages from the distros to your door, err computer.

Fundamental Tenet Of Chocolatey

Tools You Need

Chocolatey Package Sources

Where do packages come from?

• Chocolatey For Business comes with two Chocolatey sources by default:
  • chocolatey - Chocolatey Community Repository
  • chocolatey.licensed - Chocolatey licensed packages;

• Add your own sources:
  • NuGet v2 respository required;
  • Local folder
  • Repository manager:
    • Sonatype Nexus;
    • Artifactory;
    • ProGet;

DEMO 1

Chocolatey Sources

Internalizing Packages

Keeping it in the family

• What is package internalization?
• Organizations recommended to disable the default sources.
  • Reliability
  • Trust
  • Bandwidth
  • Copyright Restrictions
• Using the default chocolatey source is subject to:
  • rate limiting;
  • excessive download limiting;

• Automatically internalizes the vast majority of packages;
• Very fast;
• Don’t reinvent the wheel;
• Automation!

DEMO 2

Package Internalization

Chocolatey Recommended Organizational Architecture

Every organisation is a snowflake.

BRIGHT LIGHT COMING UP

Suggested Improvements.

Ideas to extend and customise

• Schedule Updating Packages from Chocolatey Community Repository;
• Add Configuration Management (Ansible, Puppet, PowerShell DSC etc.) to push packages to end nodes;
• Write your own Pester Tests that your organization needs;
• When packages are published to production send a notification via email / Slack / Teams or whatever you use;

Summary

• What Chocolatey is and how sources work;
• Understand package internalization and why it’s important for organizations;
• How to apply automation to Chocolatey package testing and deployment;

Questions?

	https://blog.pauby.com	Paul Broadwith
	@pauby
	github.com/pauby
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Thank You!