AutoPkg on Windows
Quite a long way from very early adventures with AutoPkg on Windows. Nick McSpadden started it on June 2018. See: https://twitter.com/mrnickmcspadden/status/1011422819853324288.
In early 2019, I was talking with my colleagues Max and Graham about automating the provisioning of packages in there deployment system (JAMF). Jealously, I had to admit, that such a framework was the missing thing in our work of provisioning software into our Windows deployment system (baramundi.de).
That talk did its work and did not let me go… And as a complete novice on Python, i began to poke around the code on https://github.com/autopkg. Naively, I downloaded that stuff and tried it on Windows, which instantly told me, that there were Python functions in use, which were OSX only and not available on Windows. Too bad. ☹
But at the end of February 19, light at the end of the tunnel! Max pointed me at the tweet mentioned earlier. And YES, with the modifications from Nick’s fork, it ran on Windows! From there to the system we have today, it was a long way. Almost 100 recipes and more than 2 dozen processors are doing a great way of saving time and creating much more reliable packages, we ever had before.
So, if you want to try it out for yourself, in about half an hour, you can build a machine, that is ready for AutoPkg.