What Chocolatey packages do you install?

[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

[dbeato]

The only other package that I install additionally to what has been listed is Adobe Air as it is used extensively where we work.

[scottalanmiller]

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

The only other package that I install additionally to what has been listed is Adobe Air as it is used extensively where we work.

There's a name that I have not heard in a long time.

[dbeato]

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

I have not heard in a long time.

Yes, we use proprietary Crestron equipment which the controller requires Adobe Air.

[scottalanmiller]

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

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

I have not heard in a long time.

Yes, we use proprietary Crestron equipment which the controller requires Adobe Air.

Weird. I had no idea that Adobe still supported that.