Best approach to use chocolatey in a salt state?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi,

I'm setting up salt state (.sls) files for our Windows workstations. I'd like to use Chocolatey as the package manager. I can see from the chocolatey module docs that you can install packages only if they are missing, like so:

salt -G 'os:Windows' chocolatey.install_missing <package name>

What's the syntax like to put this inside a sls file?

This won't work:

sublimetext3:

  chocolatey.install_missing:

    - name: sublimetext3

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Fredrik

[Fredrik Averpil]

I believe I figured it out. I had to use the salt.states.module:

sublimetext3:

  module.run:

    - name: chocolatey.install_missing

    - m_name: sublimetext3

Cheers,

Fredrik

[Megan Wilhite]

Fredrik,

I'm glad you got it figured out and thanks for posting the answer. Just to note there is also a choclatey state module here: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/develop/ref/states/all/salt.states.chocolatey.html#module-salt.states.chocolatey that might be more applicable for your situation instead of running an execution module in your sls files. The salt.states.chocolatey.installed state module states that it will Installs a package if not already installed. 

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi Megan,

That looks fantastic. Hm. I see you are linking to the "develop" documentation. I'm on Salt 2015.8.5, so I'm not sure if I have chocolatey.installed available in that version? (I'm not with Salt right now so I can't try it out but I guess it's not in there)

Cheers,

Fredrik

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[Megan Wilhite]

Fredrik,

You are right sorry I accidentally had it selected on the develop docs. It doesn't look like it is in 2015.8.5 but in the doc for the chocolatey module it states that it is going to be included in the boron release. I believe this is set to come out within the next couple of months. 

Here is the state module in the 2016.3 branch which will be in the boron release: https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/2016.3/salt/states/chocolatey.py