Chocolatey

Your Chocolatey package pipeline shouldn’t live in someone’s head. Learn how to automate Chocolatey packaging with psake — declared tasks, Pester tests, and CI/CD that runs identically locally and in GitHub Actions.

I walk through my most painful mistake of 2022. Using Remove-Item in a Pipeline can be efficient, but it can also be a disaster.

Learn how to force reinstall Chocolatey packages using PowerShell and packages.config. Complete walkthrough with XML generation script for handling partially removed packages.

Watch Gilbert’s Chocolatey Fest 2018 talk on maintenance mode at scale. Learn how Facebook’s IT team uses Chef to schedule service interruptions without impacting business operations.