winget support

[Xyz00777]

SUMMARY

support for builtin winget starting server 2025 and windows 11
There was already a feature request but it was closed without implementing. Based on the fact that winget will be builtin in newer versions of windows it should be implemented. There was also already a merge request with code who could get developed further.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

win_winget

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- name: Install PowerToys
  win_winget:
    name: Microsoft.PowerToys

References:

• Doesn't run under WinRM microsoft/winget-cli#256
• Initial winget module #109
• Ansible module to support the Windows package manager (winget) #89
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/package-manager/
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
• https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

[hiyokotaisa]

Thank you for the comment!

As jborean mentioned in the PR, current winget does not support WinRM.

There is a workaround but I think that is not good way to apply this within the module
microsoft/winget-cli#256 (comment)

[Xyz00777]

wouldnt it be possible to do it with ssh support already and the information that its not supporting winrm at the moment based on the issue?

[pzenz16]

Windows Server 2025 supports native SSH so winget module would be great.
Just use SSH to connect to the server :)

[jghal]

@pzenz16 OpenSSH server has been included since Windows 10 (1809) and Server 2019, so yeah it would make a lot of sense to start utilizing SSH more globally.

[Xyz00777]

The WinRM problem seems to be fixed now, so now it can also be implemented with winrm...

[ichabot]

That would be awesome to implement!

[cloudrootab]

+1 on this from me too

[yangskyboxlabs]

I've started to push for upstreaming DSC v3 support in ansible.windows:

• Support DSC 3.0 ansible.windows#840

This will indirectly provide winget support, with some caveats:

• [DSC Resource] Expose more settings to Microsoft.WinGet/Packages microsoft/winget-cli#3401 (This is a limitation in the integration that winget itself officially provides, and not an issue with DSC v3)

[stevenwdv]

Isn't it a problem that winget doesn't work reliably over SSH? microsoft/winget-cli#5398

Or is there a workaround?

[jantari]

Isn't it a problem that winget doesn't work reliably over SSH? microsoft/winget-cli#5398

Or is there a workaround?

Afaik that only affects the msstore source which many will not care about