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Enterprise Provisioning with Chocolatey
About Me
Alexander Doroshenko
Sitecore Ukraine
@adoprog
http://sitecoresnippets.blogspot.com
http://github.com/adoprog
Why it matters
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2011 2012 2013
Production Deployment Project Setup Developer's Desktop
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Developer's Desktop
Web Servers
• Hard to reproduce tricky issues
• Different configurations in a web farm
• Scaling web servers is complicated
• Test servers may be not exactly the same
Build Servers
• No identical environment for debug
• Scaling build servers is complicated
Solution?
USE
CHOCOLATEY
TO INSTALL
SOFTWARE
USE
BOXSTARTER
TO PROVISION
DESKTOP
Choco… what?
• Chocolatey is like apt-get a package manager for Windows
• Based on NuGet, uses the same package structure
• Type “cinst %whatever%” to install %whatever%
• Unattended install for simply anything
BoxStarter
• Start provisioning from console
• Chocolatey will be installed automatically
• Disables UAC and Windows Update
• Manages reboots
Create your own packages
• Do not rely on internet access speed
• Bundle configuration files (GhostDoc, StyleCop etc.)
• Set corporate license details
• Install programs without installers (nAnt, jMeter, etc.)
The New Desktop
1. Choose BoxStarter package from the library• Developer_General_Windows8
• Developer_%Project name%_Windows7
2. Provision from command line• \\Boxstarter\BoxStarter.bat Developer_General_Windows8
3. Start Hacking
The New Server
• Use Chocolatey or BoxStarter
• Always identical environments
• Simple and automated scaling
• Installation from trusted sources
• Simplifies reproducing issues
Hints
• MyGet / ProGet have useful “proxy” option
• Use dependencies to avoid duplicate code
• Use tokens & different feeds to support multiple locations
• Install and configure anything with PowerShell