chocolab

Lab environment for a server/client setup using Chocolatey Simple Server, Puppet Bolt and Docker.

Setup

Puppet Bolt and Docker Desktop must be installed on your machine. You must also enable windows containers in Docker Desktop.

choco install docker-desktop puppet-bolt

Install Bolt project modules:

bolt module install

Build

The build script will compose the client and server docker containers, apply the Puppet manifests and push a set of test packages to the internal Chocolatey repository.

.\build.ps1

Debugging

Testing WinRM connection:

Bolt uses WinRM to apply configuration. You can debug WinRM connection issues with:

$splat = @{
    Credential     = Get-Credential 'Bolt'
    ComputerName   = 'localhost'
    Port           = 55986 # See docker-compose.yaml for port maps
    Authentication = 'Basic'
    UseSSL         = $true
    SessionOption  = New-PSSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck # Using self-signed cert for WinRM connection
}

Enter-PSSession @splat

Remote into container

Start an interactive session through docker on the container:

docker exec -it <client/chocoserver> powershell