The next role uses Chocolatey to install a few bits of software on the machine.
Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, similar in principle and functionality to Homebrew, which we used in earlier chapters to install the software we needed on macOS with a single command. Chocolatey simplifies the installation of packages on the command line by wrapping the installation process for most common Windows installers into a common set of PowerShell commands—perfect for an orchestration tool such as Ansible.
To add the files needed for the role, run the following command:
$ ansible-galaxy init roles/choc
In roles/choc/defaults/main.yml, we have a list of the packages we want to install:
apps: - "notepadplusplus.install" - "putty.install" ...
