how to use salt chocolatey module to manage windows minion state?

[Urs Rau]

Much to my surprise, I found that there is a salt module for chocolatey. Thanks! This works great for installing, uninstalling and listing pkgs of software for windows. In fact chocolatey is very very close to a proper apt-get or yum software package manager but for windows.

But how do I now use this to write salt state into sls files along the usual salt syntax to install certain versions of software packages?

AFAIK the windows minion only use salt-winrepo to add or remove software. What switch do I have to flick, for it to use the chocolatey module to install and remove the software packages using the relevant salt chocolatey module cmd?

On the master I can do

salt ‘my-winpc-1’ chocolatey bootstrap

and this installed chocolatey if needed.

after that I can install software such as the notepad++ editor as simply as

salt ‘my-winpc-1’ chocolatey.install npp

and it goes and installs the notepad++ pkg on my-winpc-1 minion

but where do i put my state sls file that says I want ‘npp’ installed on my-winpc-1?

Thanks for any help, or an example on how to achieve this for installing notepad++ on the windows minion my-winpc-1?

PS: I case you didn’t know about it, like me, here is the salt module for chocolatey

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/modules/chocolatey.py

[Loren Gordon]

As it doesn't appear there is a corresponding chocolatey state, you could use `module.run` in a state to execute the chocolatey module.

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/states/module.py

-Loren

[Dan Sheridan]

Yes. For my Windows minions I have states that look like this:

adobereader:
  cmd.run:
    - shell: powershell
    - onlyif: 'exit (choco list -localonly | Select-String -Quiet "adobereader") '
    - name: 'cinst adobereader'

There's a ticket open about doing this properly: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/15709 and some ongoing discussion in https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/20245

Dan.

[dragon788]

You can now use states with Chocolatey to install packages.

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.chocolatey.html

Installsomepackage:
  chocolatey.installed:
    - name: packagename
    - version: '12.04'
    - source: 'mychocolatey/source'
    - force: True

[Adrian Sekowski]

How to use some specific options like changing installation path or placing extra features? I can't find good examples for windows. 

[Dafydd Jones (techneg.it)]

Hi Adrian,

the chocolatey state module has the arguments install_args and package_args which allow you to customize the installation.

For further detail you would have to look at the documentation for the specific Chocolatey package.

HTH,

Dafydd

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