DSC, Chocolatey and OneGet

DSC
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Hi,

I need to create a DSC Configuration that installs many applications. A lot of what I need is available as a Chocolatey package.

Can I run Chocolately from the DSC Config and how would I do that? Or should I use OneGet? (I wasn’t sure how mature OneGet was yet)

Thanks!
Dave

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It depends on if you’re talking v4 or v5. OneGet isn’t in v4, obviously, and v5 is extremely beta still. OneGet, by definition, is not mature yet.

Microsoft doesn’t have a Chocolatey resource, so you’d either have to get one from the community (they exist) or build your own. Alternately, if your logic is simple enough, you could build a Script resource that runs a Chocolatey command.

3

May be worth a look for you.

4

Looks like multiple people have written this: GitHub - chocolatey/cChoco: Community resource to manage Chocolatey

5

Thanks! I will give that a try.