“PowerShell Private Gallery” – Your internal PowerShell Repository

Recently, the Microsoft PowerShell team published a new project in preview on GitHub:
“PowerShell Private Gallery” or “PSPrivateGallery”.

The idea is quite straight forward. Providing an internal (trusted) repository which provides access to your internal resources (scripts, modules, DSC resources, etc…) using the same SDII (Software Discovery, Installation and Inventory) mechanism provided by the PackageManagement and PowerShellGet modules.

For now, the project is called the “PowerShell Private Gallery”.

You can give this preview a try by following the instructions below.

Instructions

Clone GitHub project locally (from https://github.com/PowerShell/PSPrivateGallery)

Extract the contents of the zip file into the path “C:\PSPrivateGallery”.

Expand-Archive –Path “<MydownloadFolder>\PSPrivateGallery-master.zip” –DestinationPath “C:\” –Force # Requires PSv5
Rename-Item –Path “C:\PSPrivateGallery-master\” –NewName “C:\PSPrivateGallery”

NOTE: Unblock files (remove streams) using the Unblock-File cmdlet.

dir –Path “C:\PSPrivateGallery” –Recurse | Unblock-File

Copy PSGallery DSC Resources to the $env:PSModulePath – Copy Modules folder contents to $env:ProgramFiles\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

Copy-Item –Path “C:\PSPrivateGallery\Modules\*” –Destination “C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules” –Recurse

Generate Credential files for both user and admin

Cd “C:\PSPrivateGallery\Configuration”
Get-Credential –Credential GalleryUser  | Export-Clixml .\GalleryUserCredFile.clixml
Get-Credential –Credential GalleryAdmin | Export-Clixml .\GalleryAdminCredFile.clixml

IMPORTANT: These passwords must meet password complexity requirements for machine/domain.

Update Configuration Data to your needs (Optional)

• \Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryEnvironment.psd1
• \Configuration\PSPrivateGalleryPublishEnvironment.psd1

Deploy the PowerShell Gallery, using PSPrivateGallery.ps1

Cd “C:\PSPrivateGallery\Configuration”
.\PSPrivateGallery.ps1

Once completed, the Private PowerShell Gallery is available on http://localhost:8080.

By default, it is a clean and empty repository.

Populate the local instance of the Gallery with specified PowerShell modules, using PSPrivateGalleryPublish.ps1.

Cd “C:\PSPrivateGallery\Configuration”
.\PSPrivateGalleryPublish.ps1

Once completed, the Private PowerShell Gallery shows 3 modules imported from the Public PowerShell Gallery (PSScriptAnalyzer, ARTools and Authenticode).

Register the Private PSGallery as an internal PowerShell repository, using Register-PSRepository.

Register-PSRepository –Name PSPrivateGallery –SourceLocation “http://localhost:8080/api/v2” –InstallationPolicy Trusted –PackageManagementProvider NuGet

Verify the PowerShell repository as internal source, using Get-PSRepository.

Get-PSRepository

Discovery, Installation and Inventory of module using the internal/private PowerShell repository

Find-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
Install-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer
Get-Module –Name PSScriptAnalyzer

Hope this helps…

Kurt Roggen [BE]