README.md

puppet-chocolatey

** Member of the rismoney suite of Windows Puppet Providers **

This is a Puppet package provider for chocolatey, which is like apt-get, but for Windows.

Installation

Install this module via any of these approaches:

• puppet forge
• git-submodule (tutorial)
• librarian-puppet
• r10k

Usage

Use it like this:

class rich::packages {
  $pkg = 'notepadplusplus'

  package { $pkg:
    ensure          => installed,
    provider        => 'chocolatey',
    install_options => ['-pre','-params','-mypkgparam'],
    source          => 'https://myfeed.example.com/api/v2',
  }
}

If you want to set this provider as the site-wide default, add to your site.pp:

if $::kernel == windows {
  # default package provider
  Package { provider => chocolatey }
}

• this is versionable so ensure => '1.0' works
• this is upgradeable
• supports latest (checks upstream), absent (uninstall)
• supports install_options for pre-release, other cli

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md