Chocolatey

This guide helps you install Chocolatey, a package manager for Microsoft Windows.

If your system doesn’t have Chocolatey, the win_chocolatey module can install it. This role ensures that Chocolatey is installed on a system, even if you don't run win_chocolatey tasks. For more details, visit Ansible Chocolatey Module Documentation.

Role Variables

The tasks will look for choco.exe in the chocolatey_path. By default, the installer PowerShell script downloads from chocolatey.org. If your machine doesn't have Internet access or uses a custom script, change the chocolatey_installer.

chocolatey_installer: https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1
chocolatey_path: c:/ProgramData/chocolatey
chocolatey_version: latest
chocolatey_windows_compression: "false"

Example Playbook

Here’s an example of how to use this role:

- hosts: win_servers
  roles:
     - role: deekayen.chocolatey
       chocolatey_installer: https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1
       chocolatey_path: c:/ProgramData/chocolatey

Requirements

The user running this role must have administrator rights.

• Must be on Windows 7 or higher / Windows Server 2008 or higher
• PowerShell version 3 or higher
• .NET Framework 4 or higher (the installation will try to install .NET 4.0 if it's not already installed)

Dependencies

There are no dependencies.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD license.