[Tool] Explore: Chocolatey Windows Package Manager
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What change would you like to make to the tech radar?
Explore the use of chocolatey windows package manager
https://chocolatey.org/
Why do you believe this is valuable to Redgate?
Standardise package management and deployment and provisioning
Where should this be on the tech radar?
Explore,
If this should be in the Explore ring, who is committed to exploring it?
happy to take this on in the Oracle team-to-be, would encourage others
We already use this in our test infrastructure, could well be adopt
Definitely good to use internally - eg we recommend using chocolately to get vagrant and virtualbox when setting up a build environment.
Is this something we should explore for external use as well? (ie wrapping our installers in chocolately packages / distributing our tools some other way?)
I use scoop on my workstation as a package manager. Pretty good for portable apps. If you are not planning to use chocolatey to deploy nupkg artifacts then I strongly recommend you to try/explore scoop.
I created a PR for this.
I think scoop looks interesting, but it seems to be something any developer could choose to have on their machine for installing apps locally rather than something we'd need to agree on. From my understanding chocolately has the automation side (e.g. on the test infrastructure) sewn up and I'm not sure scoop would give us anything on top of it?
I added @onatm as reviewer, if you disagree please let me know!
scoop is just a subset of chocolatey. The initial suggestion made me think that we only need package management program such as apt, homebrew, etc. It seems like we want to use something like we want something which can also handle deployment scenarios as well so, chocolatey would be the right option for us