Install Windows software — Ansible module win chocolatey

How to Install Windows software with Ansible? Today I’m going to reveal a secret to installing software in a Windows-managed host using Chocolatey Package Manager.

How to Install Windows software with Ansible?

Today I’m going to reveal a secret to installing the software in a Windows-managed host using Chocolatey Package Manager.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Ansible module win_chocolatey

Chocolatey is the package manager for windows, it has the largest online registry of Windows packages.

At the moment it contains nearly 9000 Community Maintained Packages.

Today we’re talking about Ansible module win_chocolatey to automate the software installation process.

The full name is chocolatey.chocolatey.win_chocolatey, which means that is part of the collection distributed by “chocolatey”.

It manages packages in Windows using chocolatey. It’s the windows correspondent of the ansible package module.