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Configuration Management Integration

Chocolatey integrates with several infrastructure automation tools!

Usage

With most of these tools, the interface you would interact with Chocolatey would be through the tool or through the interfaces of the tool, like in scripts.

Ansible

Ansible has the win_chocolatey module that manages both packages and the installation of Chocolatey itself.

win_chocolatey:
  name: git
  source: https://my.internal.repository/api/v2/

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Boxstarter

Boxstarter is a lightweight configuration management utility.

Repeatable, reboot resilient Windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. When its time to repave either bare metal or virtualized instances, locally or on a remote machine, Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations. Compatible with all Windows versions from Windows 7/2008 R2 forward.

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Chef

Chef 12.7+ has a built-in chocolatey_package resource to use with Chocolatey.

chocolatey_package 'git' do
  action :install
  source 'https://my.internal.repository/api/v2'
end

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When you need to also install Chocolatey, you would use the community cookbook to do so. The cookbook is maintained by the Chocolatey team. It has a package resource that can be used with older Chef versions.

include_recipe 'chocolatey'

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Example

Here's a more in depth example from Nordstrom:

include_recipe 'chocolatey'

home = Dir.home
%W(
  #{home}/.chef
  #{home}/chef
  #{home}/chef/cookbooks
).each do |directory|
  directory directory
end

packages = node['chefdk_bootstrap']['package']

packages.each do |pkg, install|
  include_recipe "#{cookbook_name}::#{pkg}" if install
end

Another example from Facebook:

node.default['cpe_choco']['sources']['bacon'] =
  'source' => 'http://bacon.es.yummy',
}

Octopus Deploy

Octopus is a friendly deployment automation tool for .NET developers. It integrates with lots of utilities, and they have a template for installing Chocolatey packages: https://library.octopusdeploy.com/step-template/actiontemplate-chocolatey-install-package

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PowerShell DSC

PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration) has a cChoco module that can manage both packages and the installation of Chocolatey itself.

  cChocoInstaller installChoco
  {
    InstallDir = "c:\ProgramData\chocolatey"
  }

  cChocoPackageInstaller installGit
  {
     Name = "git"
     DependsOn = "[cChocoInstaller]installChoco"
  }

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PowerShell PackageManagement

NOTE: Chocolatey has a provider for the built-in package manager on Windows 10/Windows Server 2016. The official provider is still under development at this time and is expected to be complete in early summer 2016.

PowerShell PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager aggregator that depends on the existence of package managers as providers to work, one of which is Chocolatey. For a pretty comprehensive post about what PackageManagement is and what it is not, see the PackageManagement Blog post on 10 things about OneGet that are completely different than you think.

Puppet

Puppet has a Supported module coming for Chocolatey, but also has an Approved module written by the Chocolatey team. The module can manage packages and the install and configuration of Chocolatey itself.

include chocolatey

package { 'git':
  ensure   => latest,
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'https://my.internal.repository/api/v2',
}

Puppet has some great documentation on getting started with Chocolatey. Be sure to check that out at Using Windows modules.

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Saltstack

Salt has a Chocolatey module that manages both packages and the installation of Chocolatey itself.

salt '*' chocolatey.bootstrap
salt '*' chocolatey.install git

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System Center Configuration Manager

Chocolatey integrates with SCCM by handling the software management, and pointing to distribution points as the source for packages. This allows folks to get packages and larger binaries out to their network without constraints and still take advantage of Chocolatey's fantastic abilities!

To direct Chocolatey package installs, you can still write GPOs to ensure this.