Chocolatey Workshop - Organizational Use

This is the material for the workshop "Managing Organizational Use Of Chocolatey" written by Gary Ewan Park and Paul Broadwith.

Content

Software management and deployment is already a task, getting that good base of infrastructure in place right definitely helps. When you are using Chocolatey for software deployments, there are some recommendations on how to set up repositories and Configuration Management, not to mention how best to set up your production deployment infrastructure for success. Achieving reliability, repeatability, and scale is important in any organization - come let us show you how to easily achieve all of that.

In this workshop you will get hands on experience with:

Setting up your workstation for Chocolatey packaging (best tools to use)
Preparing Chocolatey for internal use
Setting up package repositories (Nexus)
Self Service Management of Package Installations
Synchronizing traditionally installed applications with Chocolatey Packages
Combining Chocolatey with Configuration Management Systems
Complete visibility of package installations using Chocolatey Central Management

Workshop slides

The most recent slides for this presentation can be found here

Running the workshop

Prepare a couple of Win2016 VM's in in your favourite cloud.
You can use the Terraform templates in the prepare-vms folder to create VM's in Azure.
Check and increase your limits two weeks before running the workshop.
Check and ask in advance if your workshop location allows outgoing RDP connections at port 3389.

Important notes:

Before running the initialize-azure.sh script make sure you have set the default Azure subscription to use by running az account set -s <SUBSCRIPTION ID>;
Make sure the initialize-azure.sh script has the execution bit set by running chmod +x initialize_azure.sh

Problems? Questions? Feedback?

If you have problems, find a bug or have questions, don't hesitate to contact us.
Open an issue in this repository or send me a pull request.

Have fun!

Thanks

This workshop would not have been possible without the amazing work of Stefan Scherer. The contents of this workshop are based on the work that Stefan did in this repository, where he shows how to put together a full workshop environment using Packer, Terraform and Azure.

pascalberger / chocolatey-workshop-organizational-use Goto Github PK