plugging chocolatey into your puppet infrastructure puppetconf2014
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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!TRANSCRIPT
2014
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Plugging Chocolatey into your Puppet Infrastructure
Rob Reynolds Senior Software Engineer | Puppet Labs @ferventcoder
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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
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What Exactly is Chocolatey?
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Package Manager for Windows• Behaves much like yum
• Microsoft validated
• Technologies: PowerShell + NuGet packaging framework
• Does not violate distribution rights
Chocolatey
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chocolatey.org• Community feed
• Community maintained
• Trust issues?
• Recommendation: A business should run their own internal feed
5 Million Downloads!
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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
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Why Chocolatey provider versus 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
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Make Chocolatey your default!• Set Package resource
default for provider to chocolatey on Windows
• Note: There might be better ways of doing this, follow those guidelines when conflicting :)
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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
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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
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Create Packages Demo
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Host Your Own Chocolatey 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
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Chocolatey Package Server 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
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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
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• Almost 600% increase!!! Granted this is still slow, but package indexes are coming later
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Okay how about no network?• choco list -lo
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• 300% increase!
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Chocolatey Puppet Provider• How many of you would like to see the
current provider get better?
• How many of you think it would be awesome if it were a Puppet Labs supported module?
• How many of you just want chocolate?
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Supported Module• Yes, we plan to provide a Puppet Labs supported
module!
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chocolatey.org Improvements• Mark outdated
• Mark bad
• Security improvements still coming
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Demo of new Chocolatey!
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Questions?• Join the newsletter for announcements - https://
chocolatey.org/#newsletter
• ferventcoder { twitter, github, gmail }, also [email protected]
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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