We're developing an app which should be deployed on several devices using windows in our network.
For this case we have an own chocolatey server.
The app which is currently under development has one problem:
a large content folder with many files which are regularly updated - but only a few at a time.
Using chocolatey we always have to update the whole app/content at once (thats how we usually update our apps/content).
I'm not sure using chocolatey to update the content is the right way.
If it is, could you please explain how we could use delta updates using chocolatey?
If not, do you have any suggestions how we can efficently handling this problem?
Some facts:
Ideas:
I don't think Chocolatey is the right tool for deploying the files / large amount of data across your network, yet it could well be the best tool you'll find to install/setup the services etc. you need after the files are in place. Also, you could indeed use a Chocolatey Package / chocolateyinstall.ps1 to trigger the actual "engine" that transfers the files. (that's what I would do, but I'm heavily biased towards Chocolatey ;-))
You may want to look into CDC / 'content defined junking' or 'deduplication'.
Following tools make use of CDC and are heavily optimized in deploying artifacts with as little bandwidth usage as possible:
hope that helps,