Plugging Chocolatey into Your Puppet Infrastructure - Rob Reynolds, Puppet Labs

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

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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

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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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Puppet Provider
• puppet module install
rismoney/chocolatey
• Rich is a committer
• Doesn’t yet install
chocolatey

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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?

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Announcements

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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

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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
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