Oh, and in case you're wondering, Chocolatey package management gets its name from the NuGet infrastructure on which it’s built – because “everyone loves chocolatey nougat.” Get it? What is Chocolatey Used For?Ĭhocolatey is most commonly used to get software and software updates installed on many machines at once. Now, the packages available on have been downloaded millions of times, thanks to support from Microsoft and the Chocolatey community! Chocolatey automates installation, updating, and management of many packages at once. That can be particularly tricky, considering all of the installers, executables, and archives to corral.

If you’re in IT, you probably deploy a lot of software on a lot of machines using packages. It's the Windows equivalent of yum or apt-get.) (A package manager, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a way to get software onto your machine without much work on your part. Chocolatey operates via command-line interface (CLI), which makes it easy to automate software installation and management. It builds on top of existing technologies like PowerShell and NuGet. How Chocolatey Integrations Enhance Package ManagementĬhocolatey is an open-source package manager for Windows.

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