Secure - "Disconnected Environment"

[CliveSW-online]

Apologies if this is a dummy question.

We are doing a Base Deployment in a secure and "Disconnected Environment" that does not have access to any external resources, internet...blagh...blagh.

I was reading through the help documents for downloading PowerShell Module for Server Offline. If I understood the documents you have a choice of setting-up a NuGet.server or an offline repository.

The pros and cons of NuGet.server vs offline repository. Suggested that the offline repository can't process the xml required to install to do a "disconnected" Base deployment??? In the following article, Working with local PowerShellGet Repositories: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/gallery/how-to/working-with-local-psrepositories?view=powershell-6

Is this correct or am I missing something??? So you have to set-up a NuGet.serve in order to do a PowerShell Base Deployment??

Thanks,

Clive

[CliveSW-online]

I was unable to edit above to add a follow-up question.

If you are working in a and secure and "Disconnected Environment" is Chef or PowerShell environment the better solution??

[nshampur]

@CliveSW-online - there are easier ways to get the ArcGIS Module on a machine. Essentially a x-copy of the module into the PowerShell module folder should do the trick. This location is typically in Program Files/PowerShell/Modules

[CliveSW-online]

Apologies, perhaps my question wasn't clear. I wasn't able to edit/update the question.

1) For PowerShell to work on a secure and "Disconnected Environment, do you have to install NuGet.server??

2) Does Chef or Powershell work better in an automated Base Deployment working in a secure and "Disconnected Environment??

[Clives-online]

On the on-line machine there are two repositories: Get-PSRepository

Name InstallationPolicy SourceLocation

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PSGallery Trusted https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2
LocalPSRepo Trusted F:\localhost\PSRepoLocal\

I copied LocalPSRepo to the server in a disconnected environment. I have a number of packages listed: PowerShellGet and NuGet

But I get an error asking me to install NuGet??

[durbach]

@Clives-online @CliveSW-online You don't need to use NuGet Server. You'll need to get the NuGet provider and nuget.exe onto the disconnected machine. Check out: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/gallery/how-to/getting-support/bootstrapping-nuget?view=powershell-6#manually-bootstrapping-nugetexe-to-support-publish-operations-on-a-machine-that-is-not-connected-to-the-internet

These are the steps I used to get Install-Module working with a local repository in a disconnected environment:

1. On a connected machine, Run the following command in Powershell: Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -RequiredVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force
2. From the connected machine, copy the following folder to the same location on the disconnected machine: C:\Program Files\Packagemanagement\ProviderAssemblies\NuGet
3. On the connected machine, download the recommended version of nuget.exe from https://www.nuget.org/downloads and copy that to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PowerShellGet on the disconnected machine
4. On the disconnected machine, run the following command to register nuget: Import-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -RequiredVersion 2.8.5.201
5. Confirm NuGet is available as a package provider with this command: Get-PackageProvider -ListAvailable
6. Create a local PSRepository with the following command: Register-PSRepository -Name [repo name] -SourceLocation [local or UNC path to folder] -InstallationPolicy Trusted
7. Publish the ArcGIS module to this repository with the following command: Publish-Module -Path [path to arcgis module] -Repository [repo name from step 6]
8. Confirm the module is available in the repository with this command: Find-Module -Repository [repo name]
9. Finally, to install the ArcGIS module from this local repository, run this command: Install-Module ArcGIS

Hope that helps!

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