Chocolatey - Software Management for Windows

Chocolatey - Software Management for Windows

What is Chocolatey?

tl;dr Chocolatey is a software management solution that allows you to manage 100% of your software, anywhere you have Windows, with any endpoint management tool. No other solution (including newly announced solutions) reach this level of management - most only can manage to software in Programs and Features.

Chocolatey is a software management solution unlike anything else you've ever experienced on Windows. It focuses on simplicity, security, and infinite scalability. You write a software deployment in PowerShell once for any software (not just installers), then you can deploy it everywhere you have Windows with any solution that can manage systems (configuration management, endpoint management, etc) and track and manage updates of that software over time. Manage software on-premise, in the "Cloud", or in Docker containers with Chocolatey.

Whew, that was a mouthful! For a bit more detail into what all of that means and more, see What is Chocolatey?

Requirements

  • Windows 7+/Windows 2003+ (Server Core also, but not Windows Nano Server)
  • Windows PowerShell v2+ (not PowerShell Core aka PowerShell 6 yet)
  • .NET Framework 4.x+
  • See Requirements
  • See running on non-Windows

Information

Using Chocolatey

Create Packages

The Chocolatey Community Repository versus for internal use has different needs. Keep that in mind as you read over the _TODO.txt you see when you run choco new.

Individuals

Organizations

Road Map

Where are we? Where are we going?

See It In Action

Chocolatey Install

Who Are We?

You can find all of the members of the Chocolatey Team here.

Child Pages

Why Chocolatey?

Why should I use Chocolatey

Features

Information about the different features that Chocolatey has

FAQs

Chocolatey frequently asked questions

Troubleshooting

Having issues running Chocolatey, check here for solutions

Configuration

Information on the different configuration options for Chocolatey

Getting Started

Introduction to Chocolatey

Chocolatey Components Dependencies and Support Lifecycle

Provides information about the Support Lifecycle for various Chocolatey Components, as well as the dependencies between them.

Chocolatey Community Repository (CCR)

This is the default location where Chocolatey will install packages from

Chocolatey CLI (choco)

This is the main entry point for using Chocolatey, use choco.exe to install/upgrade packages

Chocolatey GUI

What is Chocolatey GUI

Chocolatey Licensed Extension

This is a Chocolatey extension that enables the licensed features of Chocolatey, depending on what license you have available

Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension

This is a Chocolatey GUI extension that enables the licensed features of Chocolatey GUI.

Chocolatey Agent

This is a Windows Services which Chocolatey uses to perform Self-Service installs, as well as to communicate with Chocolatey Central Management

Chocolatey Central Management (CCM)

What is CCM?

Chocolatey for Business Environments

Information about supported Chocolatey for Business Environments

Quick Deployment Environment (QDE)

High level information about QDE

Package Creation

Information about how to create a new Chocolatey package

Guides

Information on the best practice usage of Chocolatey

Information

All the important information that you need to know about Chocolatey

Third Party Integrations

Integrations with Third Parties