chef/cookbooks/chocolatey

chocolatey Cookbook

Install Chocolatey with the default recipe.

Requirements

Platform

• Windows

Chef Infra Client

• 12.15 or greater

Notes

As of Chocolatey version 0.9.8.24 the install directory for Chocolatey has changed from C:\Chocolatey to C:\ProgramData\Chocolatey.

More information can be gotten from the Chocolateywiki.

Attributes

All attributes below are pre-pended with node['chocolatey']

Attribute	Description	Type	Default
['upgrade']	Whether to upgrade Chocolatey if it's already installed	Boolean	false
['install_vars']['chocolateyProxyLocation']	HTTPS proxy for Chocolatey install script	String	Chef::Config['https_proxy'] or ENV['https_proxy']
['install_vars']['chocolateyProxyUser']	Proxy user for authenticating proxies	String	nil
['install_vars']['chocolateyProxyPassword']	Proxy user password	String	nil
['install_vars']['chocolateyVersion']	Version of Chocolatey to install, e.g. '0.9.9.11'	String	nil (download latest version)
['install_vars']['chocolateyDownloadUrl']	Chocolatey .nupkg file URL. Use this if you host an internal copy of the chocolatey.nupkg	String	https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey (download from chocolatey.org)
['install_vars']['chocolateyUseWindowsCompression']	To use built-in compression instead of 7zip (requires additional download) set to true	String	nil (use 7zip)
['sensitive']	When true, will suppress writing the contents of install.ps1 to the console	Boolean	false

Recipes

• chocolatey::default - installs Chocolatey

License and Maintainer

Maintainer:: Guilhem Lettron (guilhem@lettron.fr)

License:: Apache 2.0