Control Windows with Salt

This long article explores Windows management with Salt. First, it shows you how to automatically install software to Windows, control Windows boxes behind NAT and firewall and remotely run arbitrary PowerShell commands on Windows. $ sudo salt ‘*’ pkg.install gedit,firefox,steam,vlc … Continue reading

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Automatically Install a List of Software to Windows – Chocolatey Puppet Provider

Install Windows programs just by listing them: package {[“gedit”, “firefox”, “skype”, “vlc”]:} Puppet can manage Windows slaves. Choco is a limited package manager for Windows. This article shows how to use Choco from Puppet.

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