

If only I knew about Chocolatey at the time 😞🖤🌧️If you're like me, someone who's been using PC's for years, you will likely find setting up a new environment to be extremely boring and tedious. If we had run a Chocolatey script we could have easily claimed two weeks' of time back into the sprint just by automating it all.

The time it took for each developer to setting up their environment wasted months worth of man-days combined. If you work as a manager of other developers, just think how much time your team can save by simply automating this stuff.Ī recent client brought new laptops for the whole team (10-12 people) halfway through the project. Being able to automate my new PC set-up process, saves me about a weeks worth of effort every year. As a contractor, I need to set up development environments on a regular basis. Chocolatey has thousands of packages and I bet most of your favourite software programs can be installed via Chocolately 🔥☀️🌊💙Ĭhocolatey is not only useful for build servers, you can also use it to install software on your own PC. Chocolatey does the same thing that Nuget does, just for WIndows applications. Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows. One of my favourite tools at the minute is called Chocolatey. Within your Ci/Cd pipeline, it is very common to have a Build Environment build step before the Deploy step is executed. When we work with cloud servers, we want to be able to install and update everything automatically.

When you are spinning up virtual servers, you will not want to manually install software on them. Cloud servers are definitely gaining traction nowadays. This year, it feels like I've spent a lot of my time helping clients automate their deployment processes. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install software automatically for Windows through the command line, using Chocolatey.
