Installing tools on Windows with Chocolatey - a package manager

 Chocolatey is a useful tool to install apps and tools on a fresh laptop or developer VM via command line.

Install Chocolatey

To install Chocolatey, follow below steps:

• Install PowerShell 7, see link
• Open PowerShell 7 as administrator
• Run the following command to install Chocolatey (copied from the official install instructions)
• 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'))
• Close and re-open the PowerShell 7 window, again as administrator
• Run the following command to verify that install is succesful:
• choco upgrade all
• Enable long paths in PowerShell (command copied from here):
• New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem" -Name "LongPathsEnabled" -Value 1 -PropertyType DWORD -Force

Install apps with Chocolatey

Below are some commands for common tools:

• choco install -y notepadplusplus
• choco install -y git
• choco install -y vscode
• choco install -y 7zip
• choco install -y kubernetes-cli
• choco install -y kubernetes-helm
• choco install -y azure-cli
• choco install -y az.powershell
• choco install -y bicep
• choco install -y terraform
• choco install -y firefox

You can see a list of available apps here (and search as well, there are many)

Here's instructions on initial config for Git (set user.name and user.email)