I am experimenting with setting up build agents using Chocolatey and Boxstarter. It would be great if the build agents would be published to Chocolatey so I can easily spin up new build agents with a single “build” script.
Hi Geert,
Thank you for this request. I’ve added this to our todo list. We will need to update the installer script to allow silent installation first.
We currently upgrade our remote agents by running psexec from a Continua CI Execute Program action. The psexec command runs a script on each agent which shuts down the agent service, before copying dll and exe files from the local agent installation and starting the agent service.
Note that we also have a longer term plan to make the agents self-updating.
Thanks for the response. Somehow the notifications don’t always get through (could be spamfilter). Thanks for putting this on the backlog. Note that for setting up a build agent, I would use chocolatey, for updating the automatic updates would be great.