win_chocolatey - Manage packages using chocolatey

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
  • Author

Synopsis

• Manage packages using Chocolatey (http://chocolatey.org/).
• If Chocolatey is missing from the system, the module will install it.
• List of packages can be found at http://chocolatey.org/packages.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• chocolatey >= 0.10.5 (will be upgraded if older)

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Install git
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    state: present

- name: Upgrade installed packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: all
    state: latest

- name: Install notepadplusplus version 6.6
  win_chocolatey:
    name: notepadplusplus
    version: '6.6'

- name: Install git from specified repository
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    source: https://someserver/api/v2/

- name: Uninstall git
  win_chocolatey:
    name: git
    state: absent

- name: Install multiple packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: '{{ item }}'
    state: present
  with_items:
  - pscx
  - windirstat

- name: uninstall multiple packages
  win_chocolatey:
    name: '{{ item }}'
    state: absent
  with_items:
  - pscx
  - windirstat

- name: Install curl using proxy
  win_chocolatey:
    name: curl
    proxy_url: http://proxy-server:8080/
    proxy_username: joe
    proxy_password: p@ssw0rd

- name: Install curl with proxy credentials that contain quotes
  win_chocolatey:
    name: curl
    proxy_url: http://proxy-server:8080/
    proxy_username: user with \"escaped\" double quotes
    proxy_password: pass with \"escaped\" double quotes

- name: Install a package that requires 'become'
  win_chocolatey:
    name: officepro2013
  become: yes
  become_user: Administrator
  become_method: runas

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

• Trond Hindenes (@trondhindenes)
• Peter Mounce (@petemounce)
• Pepe Barbe (@elventear)
• Adam Keech (@smadam813)
• Pierre Templier (@ptemplier)