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Learning Puppet for Windows Server

By : Fuat Ulugay
Book Image

Learning Puppet for Windows Server

By: Fuat Ulugay

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Puppet for Windows Server
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Puppet and Chocolatey to update mostly used software


We learned how to use Chocolatey to install and update a software. Now, the next step is to remove some of the burden from our shoulders. I know that there are always problems with some of the updates for certain softwares. There are always new versions and new workload to fulfill.

Here is a list of softwares that we mostly need and are frequently updated. You can, of course, create your own list:

  • The Java Runtime environment

  • Adobe Reader

  • The Flash Player plugin

  • The Flash Player plugin activex

  • Firefox

  • Chrome

  • iTunes

  • 7-Zip

After creating the list of softwares, our next step is to check https://chocolatey.org/ and find their package names:

  • The Java Runtime environment: javaruntime

  • Adobe Reader: adobereader

  • The Flash Player plugin: flashplayerplugin

  • The Flash Player plugin activex: flashplayeractivex

  • Firefox: firefox

  • Chrome: google-chrome-x64

  • iTunes: itunes

  • 7-Zip: 7zip

After learning each of the package's name, you can use one module and put all of them...