What Chocolatey packages do you install?

[JaredBusch]

@Kelly said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Do you have a chocolatey script that you run on setup, or these are just ones that you run through?

I have a document saved that I simply copy from on initial setup. Too many disparate clients to try and maintain scripts everywhere.

The one client with an imaging process setup has this already in the base image.

[gjacobse]

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

choco install -y owncloud-client 7zip adobereader-update googlechrome vlc libreoffice greenshot notepadplusplus zerotier-one filezilla itunes

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

[JaredBusch]

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

[wirestyle22]

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

Because you want it to do only what you ask it to and not make assumptions?

[JaredBusch]

@wirestyle22 said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

Because you want it to do only what you ask it to and not make assumptions?

Yes.

[gjacobse]

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

How would you preform updates on a machine in that case?

[JaredBusch]

For upgrading, I have a powershell script applied via Atera (testing) or scheduled task

I have it upgrade chocolatey first just to be safe. there were issues with things when they added the new checksum features between 0.9 and 0.10

[Dashrender]

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

How would you preform updates on a machine in that case?

You just use choco upgrade all -y to update everything that's installed.

[scottalanmiller]

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

[gjacobse]

@scottalanmiller
Haven't looked at Salt yet..

[gjacobse]

@scottalanmiller said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

How did we manage this:

All Minions? showing 485 Minions?

[travisdh1]

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

How did we manage this:

All Minions? showing 485 Minions?

Someone salted all the things!

[Kelly]

@travisdh1 said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

How did we manage this:

All Minions? showing 485 Minions?

Someone salted all the things!

I'm still a little bit salty about the whole thing.

[JaredBusch]

This is what is going in the new sysprep image I am making tonight.

[syko24]

Do you guys use Chocolatey on your servers or just workstations?

[Dashrender]

@syko24 said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Do you guys use Chocolatey on your servers or just workstations?

Workstations, but I could on the servers, but I don't deploy most of this junk to a server.

[JaredBusch]

@syko24 said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Do you guys use Chocolatey on your servers or just workstations?

I do use it on servers, just the list is much smaller.

Typically

• zerotier-one
• 7zip
• notepadplusplus
• greenshot

[scottalanmiller]

@syko24 said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Do you guys use Chocolatey on your servers or just workstations?

Everywhere It is the installer for some server components too, like SSH.

[Emad R]

@scottalanmiller said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

You mean this:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html#salt.modules.chocolatey.install

salt '*' chocolatey.install <package name> install_args=<args> override_args=True

[scottalanmiller]

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

Has anyone tried combining Chocolatey with something like Salt yet?

You mean this:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html#salt.modules.chocolatey.install

salt '*' chocolatey.install <package name> install_args=<args> override_args=True

Good stuff