Are you managing Windows? Longtime Windows system admin? Do you enjoy long walks on the beach thinking about how it would be awesome to have Linux-style package management on Windows? Well you, sir or madam, are in luck! Chocolatey will help you get jiggy with it and get your Puppet package management in much the same way that you already enjoy with other platforms. During this talk we will go over how you can be successful hooking Chocolatey into Puppet, creating your own packages, and setting up an internal package repository. Even if you've seen Chocolatey before, we have something new and Puppety we'll be showing at this talk!

1. 2014
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Plugging Chocolatey
into your Puppet
Infrastructure
Rob Reynolds
Senior Software Engineer | Puppet
Labs
@ferventcoder

2. Presented by
Rob Reynolds
• Developer at Puppet Labs
• Creator of Chocolatey
• All around nice guy
• Making your Windows world
a better place
• Windows, it’s a technique

3. Presented by
Agenda
• Chocolatey?
• Chocolatey Provider
• Why Chocolatey?
• Creating Packages
• Host your own package server
• Announcements

4. What Exactly is Chocolatey?
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5. Package Manager for Windows
• Behaves much like yum
Chocolatey
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• Microsoft validated
• Technologies: PowerShell
+ NuGet packaging framework
• Does not violate distribution
rights

6. Presented by
chocolatey.org
• Community feed
• Community maintained
• Trust issues?
• Recommendation: A
business should run
their own internal feed
5 Million Downloads!

7. Chocolatey Puppet Provider
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8. Presented by
Puppet Provider
• puppet module install
rismoney/chocolatey
• Rich is a committer
• Doesn’t yet install
chocolatey

9. Presented by
Package Resource
• installable, uninstallable, upgradeable, versionable,
install_options
• Soon: holdable, uninstall_options
• Later: virtual_packages

10. Why Chocolatey provider versus
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the built in provider?

11. Presented by
Use case: git
• Name of
package
• Source
• Manifest
maintenance

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Why Chocolatey Provider?
• Synonymous with other package managers
• No edge cases like version in application names
• No edge cases like unicode symbols (em-dash,
em-I-rite?) in app names
• No source needing to point to the installer. Can I
get a WAT

13. Make Chocolatey your default!
• Set Package resource
default for provider to
chocolatey on Windows
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• Note: There might be better ways of doing
this, follow those guidelines when conflicting :)

14. Chocolatey Provider Demo
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15. Presented by
Creating Packages

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Creating Packages
• *.nuspec
• chocolateyInstall.ps1
• Other resources like binaries / config files, etc
• Getting started / reference at https://bit.ly/
createchocolateypackages

17. Presented by
packagename.nuspec
• This is a nuget
packaging
specification
• Later: choco adding
infrastructure, os
versions, etc

18. Presented by
chocolateyInstall.ps1
• Helpers / Functions
• Reduce work
• PowerShell, you can
do *anything*
• Function reference
http://bit.ly/chocolateyfunctionreference

19. Presented by
Create Packages Visually
• Nuget Package Explorer
(choco install
nugetpackageexplorer)
• Ignore its warnings, it is
geared towards NuGet
proper
• NO content folder

20. Create Packages Demo
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21. Host Your Own Chocolatey
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Package Server

22. Presented by
Host Chocolatey Packages
• Now it’s easy to set up your
own package feed
• Make it custom/internal for
business purposes.
• chocolatey.server package
• Beta
• Simple server

23. Chocolatey Package Server
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Demo

24. Presented by
Announcements

25. Presented by
So it’s been a year
• A year ago we:
• were on Choco v0.9.8.20
• the chocolatey puppet module was just fixed
• and no easy way to install a private choco server

26. Presented by
Getting Chocolatey
• Chocolatey Executable
• First public viewing here today
• Stability / Performance improvements
• Help menu improvements (like, there is one now)
• Lots of command switches
• Global Noop

27. Presented by
Just how much faster is it?
• Checking upgrades across 114 packages
!
!
!
• Almost 600% increase!!! Granted this is still slow, but
package indexes are coming later

28. Okay how about no network?
• choco list -lo
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!
!
!
• 300% increase!

29. Chocolatey Puppet Provider
• How many of you would like to see the
current provider get better?
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• How many of you think it would be
awesome if it were a Puppet Labs
supported module?
• How many of you just want chocolate?

30. Supported Module
• Yes, we plan to provide a Puppet Labs supported
module!
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31. chocolatey.org Improvements
• Mark outdated
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• Mark bad
• Security improvements still
coming

32. Demo of new Chocolatey!
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33. Questions?
• Join the newsletter for announcements - https://
chocolatey.org/#newsletter
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• ferventcoder { twitter, github, gmail }, also
rob@puppetlabs.com

34. Presented by
Thank you!
• Other awesome things involving Windows:
• Getting started w/Puppet on Windows (Josh Cooper) -
Wed 2:20PM - Golden Gate B
• Workshop: Puppet for Windows Users (Ethan Brown) -
Wed 3:10 - Salon 2-3
• Puppet Demo: Managing Windows with Puppet
Enterprise - today/tomorrow - Nob Hill