Windows Devops Tools

This repository contains configuration files and scripts enabling engineers to consistently setup their Windows 10 22H2/11 workstation for continuous delivery oriented development.

Install Chocolatey package manager

Chocolatey has been prefered to WinGet because as it usually is up-to-date with version released by upstream projects.

Start a Windows Powershell prompt as an Administrator, then run the following command line to install Cholatey Package Manager

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Install Application packages

The chocolatey/packages.config XML file contains the list of software packages to be installed. To install a specific version of a package. Run first choco list --exact 'package_name' --all to identify available versions, then amend the version to the appropriate line in chocolatey/packages.config file.

Start a New Windows Powershell prompt as an Administrator, then run the following command line to install all packages recored in the inventory file.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fjudith/windows-devops-tools/main/chocolatey/install.ps1'))

Install Visual Studio Code extensions

The visual-studio-code/extensions.txt TXT file contains the list of Visual Studio Code (VsCode) extensions to be installed.

From a Windows Powershell prompt, run the following command line to install all extensions recorded in the inventory file.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fjudith/windows-devops-tools/main/visual-studio-code/install.ps1'))