Crista Perlton on November 21st, 2024.
One of the fastest ways to level up your PowerShell teams is to invest in the people using it. The real power behind PowerShell is people’s relationship to this scripting language.
Crista Perlton on November 18th, 2024.
When using npm packages for your development in teams across an organization, you’ll want to set some standards, especially when they’re sharing libraries. A “wild west” of teams doing their own thing ends up in confusion and potential risks, like version conflicts, and even security issues. Scouring the web...
The Inedo Team on November 14th, 2024.
Managing software across hundreds—or even thousands—of Windows machines isn’t exactly a walk in the park. Organizations are often caught in a cycle of installing and updating apps, which can be not only time-consuming but also a breeding ground for errors. That’s where Chocolatey, a widely used software management tool, comes in—it’s...
Crista Perlton on September 16th, 2024.
Whether you’ve been using Chocolatey in your organization for a while or are just starting out, there are some best practices you can follow to get the most out of it. Chocolatey already makes deploying and maintaining software a breeze, but there are still additional steps you can take to make it a better fit for your organization....
Crista Perlton on September 10th, 2024.
As we near the final quarter of the year, we’re excited to share some of our upcoming plans. Later this year, we’ll officially publish our 2025 roadmap following the releases of BuildMaster 2024 and Otter 2024. But for now, we wanted to give you a bit of a sneak peek at what we’re working on, especially with ProGet....
Crista Perlton on September 9th, 2024.
Whether your organization is just looking into Chocolatey or has been using its OSS version for some time you might be wondering if investing in the “Chocolatey for Business” (C4B) license is the way to go for your organization. For those creating many of their own packages and internalizing them, the $17/node fee pays...
Crista Perlton on September 5th, 2024.
Since we released ProGet 2024 we have received a lot of positive feedback on how the reworked Policies & Compliance Rules have really cut down the time spent managing compliance. Our customers have found them to be “intuitive and incredibly effective.” A particular feature that our users have been really positive about is...
Alex Papadimoulis on September 2nd, 2024.
pgutil is an open-source, cross-platform command line tool that provides a variety of commands to upload/download packages, manage feeds, audit package compliance, assess vulnerabilities, etc. We released pgutil 1.0 alongside ProGet 2024 and over the past several months, we’ve been steadily adding new commands to the tool...
Crista Perlton on August 15th, 2024.
So, you’re thinking of using Chocolatey, and are working in an offline, restricted, or airgapped environment, —but is it even possible? Chocolatey is typically an online open-source repository, with packages that point to online installers. Good news, it is possible! Chocolatey provides instructions on setting up offline...
Alex Papadimoulis on August 1st, 2024.
Starting in ProGet 2025, we will begin our multi-year journey of saying goodbye to Microsoft’s SQL Server. In its place, we will be switching to an embedded distribution of PostgreSQL with the option to use your own PostgreSQL Server. We also plan to support both databases for at least two major releases, to make the transition as...