## 1. REQUIREMENTS ##
### Here are the requirements necessary to ensure this is successful.
### a. Internal/Private Cloud Repository Set Up ###
#### You'll need an internal/private cloud repository you can use. These are
#### generally really quick to set up and there are quite a few options.
#### Chocolatey Software recommends Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or ProGet as they
#### are repository servers and will give you the ability to manage multiple
#### repositories and types from one server installation.
### b. Download Chocolatey Package and Put on Internal Repository ###
#### You need to have downloaded the Chocolatey package as well.
#### Please see https://chocolatey.org/install#organization
### c. Other Requirements ###
#### i. Requires puppetlabs/chocolatey module
#### See https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey
## 2. TOP LEVEL VARIABLES ##
### a. Your internal repository url (the main one). ###
#### Should be similar to what you see when you browse
#### to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
$_repository_url = 'INTERNAL REPO URL'
### b. Chocolatey nupkg download url ###
#### This url should result in an immediate download when you navigate to it in
#### a web browser
$_choco_download_url = 'INTERNAL REPO URL/package/chocolatey.2.5.0.nupkg'
### c. Chocolatey Central Management (CCM) ###
#### If using CCM to manage Chocolatey, add the following:
#### i. Endpoint URL for CCM
# $_chocolatey_central_management_url = 'https://chocolatey-central-management:24020/ChocolateyManagementService'
#### ii. If using a Client Salt, add it here
# $_chocolatey_central_management_client_salt = "clientsalt"
#### iii. If using a Service Salt, add it here
# $_chocolatey_central_management_service_salt = 'servicesalt'
## 3. ENSURE CHOCOLATEY IS INSTALLED ##
### Ensure Chocolatey is installed from your internal repository
### Note: `chocolatey_download_url is completely different than normal
### source locations. This is directly to the bare download url for the
### chocolatey.nupkg, similar to what you see when you browse to
### https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/package/chocolatey
class {'chocolatey':
chocolatey_download_url => $_choco_download_url,
use_7zip => false,
}
## 4. CONFIGURE CHOCOLATEY BASELINE ##
### a. FIPS Feature ###
#### If you need FIPS compliance - make this the first thing you configure
#### before you do any additional configuration or package installations
#chocolateyfeature {'useFipsCompliantChecksums':
# ensure => enabled,
#}
### b. Apply Recommended Configuration ###
#### Move cache location so Chocolatey is very deterministic about
#### cleaning up temporary data and the location is secured to admins
chocolateyconfig {'cacheLocation':
value => 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\cache',
}
#### Increase timeout to at least 4 hours
chocolateyconfig {'commandExecutionTimeoutSeconds':
value => '14400',
}
#### Turn off download progress when running choco through integrations
chocolateyfeature {'showDownloadProgress':
ensure => disabled,
}
### c. Sources ###
#### Remove the default community package repository source
chocolateysource {'chocolatey':
ensure => absent,
location => 'https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/',
}
#### Add internal default sources
#### You could have multiple sources here, so we will provide an example
#### of one using the remote repo variable here
#### NOTE: This EXAMPLE requires changes
chocolateysource {'internal_chocolatey':
ensure => present,
location => $_repository_url,
priority => 1,
username => 'optional',
password => 'optional,not ensured',
bypass_proxy => true,
admin_only => false,
allow_self_service => false,
}
### b. Keep Chocolatey Up To Date ###
#### Keep chocolatey up to date based on your internal source
#### You control the upgrades based on when you push an updated version
#### to your internal repository.
#### Note the source here is to the OData feed, similar to what you see
#### when you browse to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
package {'chocolatey':
ensure => latest,
provider => chocolatey,
source => $_repository_url,
}
## 5. ENSURE CHOCOLATEY FOR BUSINESS ##
### If you don't have Chocolatey for Business (C4B), you'll want to remove from here down.
### a. Ensure The License File Is Installed ###
#### Create a license package using script from https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/guides/organizations/organizational-deployment-guide#exercise-4-create-a-package-for-the-license
# TODO: Add resource for installing/ensuring the chocolatey-license package
package {'chocolatey-license':
ensure => latest,
provider => chocolatey,
source => $_repository_url,
}
### b. Disable The Licensed Source ###
#### The licensed source cannot be removed, so it must be disabled.
#### This must occur after the license has been set by the license package.
## Disabled sources still need all other attributes until
## https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-4449 is resolved.
## Password is necessary with user, but not ensurable, so it should not
## matter what it is set to here. If you ever do get into trouble here,
## the password is your license GUID.
chocolateysource {'chocolatey.licensed':
ensure => disabled,
priority => '10',
user => 'customer',
password => '1234',
require => Package['chocolatey-license'],
}
### c. Ensure Chocolatey Licensed Extension ###
#### You will have downloaded the licensed extension to your internal repository
#### as you have disabled the licensed repository in step 5b.
#### Ensure the chocolatey.extension package (aka Chocolatey Licensed Extension)
package {'chocolatey.extension':
ensure => latest,
provider => chocolatey,
source => $_repository_url,
require => Package['chocolatey-license'],
}
#### The Chocolatey Licensed Extension unlocks all of the following, which also have configuration/feature items available with them. You may want to visit the feature pages to see what you might want to also enable:
#### - Package Builder - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-builder
#### - Package Internalizer - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-internalizer
#### - Package Synchronization (3 components) - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-synchronization
#### - Package Reducer - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-reducer
#### - Package Audit - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-audit
#### - Package Throttle - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/package-throttle
#### - CDN Cache Access - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/private-cdn
#### - Branding - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/branding
#### - Self-Service Anywhere (more components will need to be installed and additional configuration will need to be set) - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/self-service-anywhere
#### - Chocolatey Central Management (more components will need to be installed and additional configuration will need to be set) - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/chocolatey-central-management
#### - Other - https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/features/paid/
### d. Ensure Self-Service Anywhere ###
#### If you have desktop clients where users are not administrators, you may
#### to take advantage of deploying and configuring Self-Service anywhere
chocolateyfeature {'showNonElevatedWarnings':
ensure => disabled,
}
chocolateyfeature {'useBackgroundService':
ensure => enabled,
}
chocolateyfeature {'useBackgroundServiceWithNonAdministratorsOnly':
ensure => enabled,
}
chocolateyfeature {'allowBackgroundServiceUninstallsFromUserInstallsOnly':
ensure => enabled,
}
chocolateyconfig {'backgroundServiceAllowedCommands':
value => 'install,upgrade,uninstall',
}
### e. Ensure Chocolatey Central Management ###
#### If you want to manage and report on endpoints, you can set up and configure
### Central Management. There are multiple portions to manage, so you'll see
### a section on agents here along with notes on how to configure the server
### side components.
if $_chocolatey_central_management_url {
package {'chocolatey-agent':
ensure => latest,
provider => chocolatey,
source => $_repository_url,
require => Package['chocolatey-license'],
}
chocolateyconfig {'CentralManagementServiceUrl':
value => $_chocolatey_central_management_url,
}
if $_chocolatey_central_management_client_salt {
chocolateyconfig {'centralManagementClientCommunicationSaltAdditivePassword':
value => $_chocolatey_central_management_client_salt,
}
}
if $_chocolatey_central_management_service_salt {
chocolateyconfig {'centralManagementClientCommunicationSaltAdditivePassword':
value => $_chocolatey_central_management_client_salt,
}
}
chocolateyfeature {'useChocolateyCentralManagement':
ensure => enabled,
require => Package['chocolatey-agent'],
}
chocolateyfeature {'useChocolateyCentralManagementDeployments':
ensure => enabled,
require => Package['chocolatey-agent'],
}
}
ribose (maintainer) on 26 Aug 2025 06:13:40 +00:00:
User 'ribose' (maintainer) submitted package.
chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 26 Aug 2025 06:45:20 +00:00:
xml2rfc has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
NOTE: No required changes that the validator checks have been flagged! It is appreciated if you fix other items, but only Requirements will hold up a package version from approval. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.
Notes
Notes typically flag things for both you and the reviewer to go over. Sometimes this is the use of things that may or may not be necessary given the constraints of what you are trying to do and/or are harder for automation to flag for other reasons. Items found in Notes might be Requirements depending on the context. A package version can be approved without addressing Note comments.
chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 26 Aug 2025 07:44:56 +00:00:
xml2rfc has failed automated package testing (verification).
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/dd106a7a835be0c6bc17e528df3e3ac1 for details.
The package status will be changed and will be waiting on your next actions.
ribose (maintainer) on 29 Aug 2025 03:57:55 +00:00:
User 'ribose' (maintainer) submitted package.
chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 29 Aug 2025 04:31:58 +00:00:
xml2rfc has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
NOTE: No required changes that the validator checks have been flagged! It is appreciated if you fix other items, but only Requirements will hold up a package version from approval. A human review could still turn up issues a computer may not easily find.
Notes
Notes typically flag things for both you and the reviewer to go over. Sometimes this is the use of things that may or may not be necessary given the constraints of what you are trying to do and/or are harder for automation to flag for other reasons. Items found in Notes might be Requirements depending on the context. A package version can be approved without addressing Note comments.
chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 29 Aug 2025 06:23:31 +00:00:
xml2rfc has failed automated package testing (verification).
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/6010fbc036b18e6293facf0c94a71b70 for details.
The package status will be changed and will be waiting on your next actions.
ribose (maintainer) on 29 Aug 2025 07:49:38 +00:00:
Hi Admin, we have resubmitted the package after local testing, and we are unable to see any failure -- the latest submitted package installed successfully as a Python package. Could you please help? Thanks! - Ronald Tse
gep13 (reviewer) on 01 Sep 2025 06:45:11 +00:00:
This package seems to be getting stuck at the point of install the python package dependency.
I have tested the package installation locally on my local test environment, and the package installation succeeds.
If the package-verifier fails this time around, we can look to provide an exemption from package-verifier.
Verification Status Change - Verification tests have been set to rerun.
gep13 (reviewer) on 01 Sep 2025 07:04:03 +00:00:
Looking at this further, the
python
package already has an exemption from package-verifier, so we can do the same on this package.When the package gets through package-verifier, leave a comment on the package page, and I will pick this up.
chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 01 Sep 2025 08:05:29 +00:00:
xml2rfc has failed automated package testing (verification).
Please visit https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/cd23e1b93a45d8145749710b183d65b9 for details.
The package status will be changed and will be waiting on your next actions.
ribose (maintainer) on 01 Sep 2025 08:20:00 +00:00:
Hi gep13, thank you for the update! The package has gone through the package-verifier and it failed again (https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/cd23e1b93a45d8145749710b183d65b9). Hopefully this can be exempted and finally approved. Thank you for your help!